Tag: Galileo Galilei
Life Without Purpose — The Fundamental Flaw
The fundamental flaw in the conventional approach to understanding life is that we think we can fully understand the whole by looking at the individual parts.
UFOs Replay History: Rogan, Keating, and “Things Seen in the Skies”
Psychologist Carl Jung got interested in UFOs around 1946, shortly after the development of the atom bomb.
Rumors of War and Evidence of Peace Between Science and Christianity
The institution in which most scholars investigated natural motion is also noteworthy — the university. This invention began with the University of Bologna.
Puncturing the Science-Faith Warfare Myth
In abandoning his traditional Jewish faith, was Baruch Spinoza able to provide an improved framework for doing science?
Johannes Kepler on the Holy Work of Astronomy
Kepler rejected the idea that the enormous scale of the cosmos suggested that mankind is less important than in the cozier Aristotelian-Ptolemaic model.