Do you see a similarity between the way religious fanatics deny evolution today and the way........?

Question

.......religious fanatics denied Galileo's thory of planetary motion (to the point of torturing him until he retracted his beliefs)

In 500 years will history look back at the denial of evolution in a similar way.

Answer 1

no, not really because most of the senior Roman Catholic curia during the Renaissance were humanists and more than likely they were at the very least agnostics. they probably understood and accepted what Galileo said was true, but any attack on the dogma of the catholic church also affected its secular political power. religious fanatics most resemble the witch burners, immersed in unshakable superstition and ignorance. the people who most resemble those who persecuted Galileo are the politicians who mouth religious conviction in order to gain or retain power.

Answer 2

No. Galileo's trial was far more political than philosophical. Galileo was convicted for publishing without permission, not specificly for the information. The information Galileo published was wrong -- he used a heliocentric model to explain tides without the benefit of universal gravitation. The Reformation was underway, and heliocentrism was an idea from the Protestant North, while Galileo published in the heart of Catholic Italy.

Today, a small minority atack evolution for attacking the Bible, not the church, but just as many see the opportunity to construct a religious counterargument that they want to wedge into public schools. Both are political, but the similarity ends there.

Answer 3

Yes, unfortunately. Its not necessarily that they're religious (I'm Christian and think that science asks how? and religion asks why? I have no problem with the two coexisting - I'm doing a degree that takes evolution as a given), but that they don't want to accept change. Which is unfortunate - science *needs* a moral guide when we play about with things so fundamental, to stop the human race from doing something stupid (i.e. wiping us all out - and we have the capabilities to do that already - all it takes is one panicky world leader.).

Personally I believe that we all evolved from a common ancestor, andat one point we shared a common ancestor with other primates, other mammals, other vertabrates, e.t.c. Doesn't mean that I don't think God had nothing to do with it - scientists will agree that the odds of us evolving the way we have are pretty slim....

Answer 4

Why do you employ religious ? If one faith does no longer have faith in Evo..u cant bash all relgions hinduism does have faith in evolution... no longer precisely like darwin's yet in a greater logical and explainable way hinduism believes we ought to bypass by using 8.4 million distinctive species until eventually now attaining human hindu epic Ramayan has point out of the lacking link... some 0.5 apes and 0.5 human beings who helped Rama combat with Ravana

Answer 5

Probably and why can you not have religion and evolution after all the proof for both is now.

Answer 6

Being a fanatic (any sort) is a mental condition, therefore all action by them should be judged accordingly.

Answer 7

Please check your dictionary for the definition of the word theory. Could you please explain what caused the big bang while your at it? and do you believe we came from monkeys? if so why have they not evolved? Could you check and see for me because I'm not sure has a theory ever been proven wrong or have they all been proven correct? Science has it's limitations.