Tag: Galileo Galilei
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.
Michael Keas Debunks Science-Faith Warfare Myth
“Scientists do love a good story,” says Keas. “Turns out there are plenty of stories we shouldn’t believe.”
New Book: For This Scientist, Science Did Not Point to Atheism
Kepler was not alone. Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, Nicolaus Copernicus, and many others who established modern science were deeply religious thinkers.