what do you think the church stood to gain by imprisoning galileo? i've heard some defenders of christianity say galileo's theories do not disprove anything in the bible. but what about passages such as psalms 93:1, psalms 96:10, and 1 chronicles 16:30 which state "the world is firmly established, it cannot be moved." or psalms 104:5 which says, "[the lord] set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved." it would seem to me that anything which contradicted this might be a threat to the bible. don't you think? any similarities between galileo's theories and darwin's as far as being a threat to the bible?
2007-11-24 18:53:17 · 10 answers · asked by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
in a hundred years, uneducated people will be claiming how the bible taught evolution all along.
2007-11-24 19:04:37 · answer #1 · answered by eelai000 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The church establishment stood to maintain political power and prominence by imprisoning Galileo. (IMHO)
As far as Galileo's theories disproving the Bible, has the earth ever been moved out of the orbital track in which God placed it?
As far as Darwin's theories, even most modern evolutionists do not adher to them.
However, great question. You put thought into it Christians should never be afraid of or shy away from any type of challege to our beliefs. If you do, maybe you should learn more about what you say you believe!
2007-11-24 19:11:26 · answer #2 · answered by Leonard D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What happened to Galileo by the church was wrong. Catholic church have done horrible things and I am not saying that they are not doing so now. It is something what people did wrong, not God and Galileo did not prove God wrong or the Bible wrong. Whatever Darwin has said is not a threat to the Bible either.
You need to remember that Jesus confirmed the Old Testament. God does not make mistakes, people make them
2007-11-25 02:44:10 · answer #3 · answered by Nina, BaC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Galileo controversy was embarrassing for all of Christendom, and it is generally a sad fact of history that Christians would like to distance themselves from. As to whether the current dismissal of the overwhelming fact of evolution is done out of the same apprehension that it threatens the Bible’s claim to inerrancy, I think you are absolutely correct.
The Christian fundamentalists of today, who seek to suppress the teaching of evolution, or seek to confuse the minds of youngsters by forcing schools to teach the myths of intelligent design and creationism, are of the same mentality as the those persecutors within the Catholic Church that interrogated Galileo.
At the heart of their mindset, is a deep seeded hostility to new information and the true ascertainment of truth. Trust me, if modern day fundamentalist Christians had the torture devices that were available to the Church during Galileo’s time, and if they had the government’s arm at their disposal, trust me they would use them today on most of the scientific world.
The mind of the inquisitor has not died about, but has instead been denuded of all power, thanks to secular activists. It is these few brave souls that we should thank for our freedom to not be controlled by the ignoramuses of the fundamentalist Christian world.
Just as an aside, and in response to other respondents to this question, it is wrong to draw a line of distinction between Catholics and other Christians during Galileo’s persecution. The Roman Catholic Church was an all encompassing institution, and most people who were deemed Christians at that time, where under the dominion of the Catholic Church, and adhered to Catholic dogma. At that time Roman Catholic and Christian were synonymous terms. The Protestant Reformation was only in its infancy stages at that time, and had only small following. The vast majority of the Christian world was considered Catholic or Eastern Orthodox. In either case, the verses in the Bible that “Just Curious” mentioned, and the 1st chapter of Genesis, if read literally (and nothing about them warrants us reading them any other way), contradicts our scientific model of the earth and its place within our solar system and cosmos.
2007-11-25 13:11:42 · answer #4 · answered by Lawrence Louis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What are you saying? Are you saying that the bible is saying that we should not study science and should imprison all that do? I am a Christian, and this is just ridiculous. No wonder atheists think we are nut jobs. So strange that the three wisemen followed a star in the heavens. Come to think about it, prophets were always studying the stars and the constellations.
It also says that fortune tellers are damned to hell. But how do you separate the fortune teller from the prophet?
2007-11-24 18:57:34 · answer #5 · answered by Sparkles 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First of all, it was the Catholic church that imprisoned Galileo, not the Christian church. And the catholic church couldn't care less about what the Bible says. The only reason they imprisoned him was that he was saying something which disagreed with one of their views that they had already made public. They never have taken kindly to those who openly disagree with them.
2007-11-24 20:10:16 · answer #6 · answered by antilucis 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'd like to know what the Church stood to gain when they burned Giordano Bruno at the stake for saying the sun was a star.
2007-11-24 18:56:06 · answer #7 · answered by 雅威的烤面包机 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Jesus warned us that there are going to be a lot of people doing very bad things in His name. This is one of them.
2007-11-25 15:29:16 · answer #8 · answered by Ulrika 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please rephrase one more time and say Roman Catholics not Christians. Saying, "Christians" generalizes way to much. Roman Catholics killed many non Roman Catholic Christians for failure to yield to the Pope long before the Reformation.
2007-11-24 19:02:22 · answer #9 · answered by δοῦλος Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2007-11-24 18:59:12 · answer #10 · answered by Shinigami 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋