To the one who answered that in my earlier question.
IN THE winter of 1609/10, Galileo Galilei turned his newly developed telescope toward the heavens and discovered four moons circling the planet Jupiter. What he saw shattered the prevailing notion that all heavenly bodies must orbit the earth. Earlier, in 1543, the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus had theorized that the planets revolve around the sun. Galileo verified that this was scientific truth.
To Catholic theologians, however, this was heresy. The church had long held that the earth was the center of the universe.2 This view was based on a literal interpretation of scriptures that pictured the earth as being fixed “on its foundations, unshakable for ever and ever.” (Psalm 104:5, The Jerusalem Bible) Summoned to Rome, Galileo appeared before the Inquisition. Subjected to rigorous examination, he was forced to recant his findings, and he spent the rest of his life under house arrest.
2006-12-05 10:56:42 · 7 answers · asked by Tomoyo K 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well you certainly disproved them. I think before people shoot their mouths off they should check their source and accuracy. There is so much heresy on here. I appreciate your research.
2006-12-05 12:38:30 · answer #1 · answered by coolcat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here is a list of some Catholic scientists:
Fr. Roger Boscovich - the father of modern atomic theory
Nicolaus Copernicus - the Heliocentric Universe
Marie Curie - Radioactivity
Leonardo da Vinci - Artist, Inventor, Scientist
Rene Descartes - mathematician, scientist and philosopher
Enrico Fermi - Atomic Physics
Alexander Fleming - Penicillin
Galileo Galilei - the New Science
Johannes Gutenberg - printing press inventor
Fr. Athanasius Kircher - a father of Egyptology
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier - the Revolution in Chemistry
Marcello Malpighi - Microscopic Anatomy
Guglielmo Marconi - Radio Developer
Gregor Mendel - the Laws of Inheritance
Louis Pasteur - the Germ Theory of Disease
Fr. Giambattista Riccioli - first to measure the rate of acceleration of a freely falling body
Erwin Schrodinger - Wave Mechanics
Andreas Vesalius - the New Anatomy
John von Neumann - the Modern Computer
With love in Christ.
2006-12-07 16:34:52 · answer #2 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Gregor Mendel was a monk and the founder of genetics. And the church in the middle ages was very active in science. They, as you point out, also tried to suppress it.
In general I agree with you position that the church and science have problems. The main one is that science keeps finding problems with the way the scriptures say the universe is put together and the way that life came to be on it.
2006-12-05 11:08:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Almost all of them up until about the 1800s.
Please read the link below for proof and as you do so note that this was only the most convenient text for proof of the Catholic Church's invaluability to both science and the development of the Western thought.
2006-12-05 11:19:55 · answer #4 · answered by STILL standing 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Knute Rockne of Notre Dame University helped to discover synthetic rubber at the University of Notre Dame with a priest!
Go Irish!
2006-12-05 11:02:09 · answer #5 · answered by Lives7 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe we would have found a cure to cancer by now or set a man on mars, if so many scientists findings hadn't been suppressed by religous absurdity. I guess we'll never know.
2006-12-05 11:01:49 · answer #6 · answered by Poo 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Better than having a spike driven through his tongue and being burned alive on a fire started by his own writings.
2006-12-05 11:06:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋