The modern church is yet to get on the same page with scientific revolution. The war between religion and science has been in play for centuries and with technology growing at the current lightening speed, the science side will take fewer casualties this time unlike before.
Both science and religion were in existence by the 16th and 17th centuries and so was their war. The Catholic Church was full with fear that heretics would spread opinions and teachings that were in contradiction with the Bible. Back then the Catholic Church was a powerful empire, one that influenced and impacted any country or state it set foot on. As such, scientists who seemed to form theories that the Catholic Church viewed as heretical were persecuted. Written material …show more content…
Some of these scientists like Galileo and Copernicus printed books that were later banned by the Church. Unlike Copernicus who died soon after his book got published, Galileo went through interrogations and in 1633, Pope Urban VII imprisons him. Galileo and Copernicus proposed the theory we now know to be true; that “the Earth revolved around the sun” (Leveillee). The Church did not agree with this approach since according to Holy Scriptures, “the earth is at the center, not the Sun” (Leveillee). During the 16th and 17th century the Church took Biblical content literally. By publishing these books, Galileo and Copernicus were considered as sinners; sinners who were preaching through writing that “the Bible was wrong” (Leveillee) and by so doing, they put the Church’s view of humanity and the Earth to question. In particular, the view that the Earth was God-chosen and resided rightfully at the center of the …show more content…
Besides, most of the astronomers and scientists who contribute to these findings were religious men who certainly had no intention to attack the underlying theology. For example, Galileo was a God-fearing Catholic and when the pope threatened to excommunicate him, he recanted his statements which evoked belief in the heliocentric Copernican model. Moreover, many philosophers and scientists have gone to great lengths trying to accommodate their scientific findings with their personal theology; Protestantism or Catholicism. Religionists have therefore been seeking to reconcile science and religion. Moreover, the new breed of scholars asserts that religion, especially Christianity is the actual cause of science’s existence (Seiler). Besides, now we have historians of science who not only agree with this notion but also reject the idea that religion and science are not compatible. They have gone ahead to write volumes refuting “the conflict thesis”: the idea that religion and science are essentially in conflict (Seiler). For example, Stark; one of the most contemporary advocates for the new view, published his book For the Glory of God dedicating a chapter to the notion that the philosophical groundwork on which modern science developed was laid, by
Both science and religion were in existence by the 16th and 17th centuries and so was their war. The Catholic Church was full with fear that heretics would spread opinions and teachings that were in contradiction with the Bible. Back then the Catholic Church was a powerful empire, one that influenced and impacted any country or state it set foot on. As such, scientists who seemed to form theories that the Catholic Church viewed as heretical were persecuted. Written material …show more content…
Some of these scientists like Galileo and Copernicus printed books that were later banned by the Church. Unlike Copernicus who died soon after his book got published, Galileo went through interrogations and in 1633, Pope Urban VII imprisons him. Galileo and Copernicus proposed the theory we now know to be true; that “the Earth revolved around the sun” (Leveillee). The Church did not agree with this approach since according to Holy Scriptures, “the earth is at the center, not the Sun” (Leveillee). During the 16th and 17th century the Church took Biblical content literally. By publishing these books, Galileo and Copernicus were considered as sinners; sinners who were preaching through writing that “the Bible was wrong” (Leveillee) and by so doing, they put the Church’s view of humanity and the Earth to question. In particular, the view that the Earth was God-chosen and resided rightfully at the center of the …show more content…
Besides, most of the astronomers and scientists who contribute to these findings were religious men who certainly had no intention to attack the underlying theology. For example, Galileo was a God-fearing Catholic and when the pope threatened to excommunicate him, he recanted his statements which evoked belief in the heliocentric Copernican model. Moreover, many philosophers and scientists have gone to great lengths trying to accommodate their scientific findings with their personal theology; Protestantism or Catholicism. Religionists have therefore been seeking to reconcile science and religion. Moreover, the new breed of scholars asserts that religion, especially Christianity is the actual cause of science’s existence (Seiler). Besides, now we have historians of science who not only agree with this notion but also reject the idea that religion and science are not compatible. They have gone ahead to write volumes refuting “the conflict thesis”: the idea that religion and science are essentially in conflict (Seiler). For example, Stark; one of the most contemporary advocates for the new view, published his book For the Glory of God dedicating a chapter to the notion that the philosophical groundwork on which modern science developed was laid, by