How to dress up as Galileo?

How might Galileo had a different outcome using principles given in the bible?

• I put this Q because it is so 'normal', so 'common' what Galileo is said to have done. (one of my answers, chosen 'best answer' has this info. in it about what Galileo actually said, and it could be online). Many things Galileo did were wrong according to the bible. (Not talking at all about his wonderful discoveries, but how he presented this, what he did). Can you explain how/where Galileo went wrong, and then the consequences of this? I thought I'd see if others can figure out this Q. I don't have my copy & paste function here, so can't give this to you, sorry about that...but you can find it in my answers, just scroll through B.A.'s to one with Galileo in it. Another way to put this Q might be to say 'How do you present really DIFFERENT information using bible principles?' <<>>

• Answer:

  Hi Blessings. Galileo was honest when he said that the Bible was the true word of God. He just didn't think it was a good astronomy textbook. Galileo's works were banned by the Church for centuries, and not until our own time would his rift with the church be healed. Galileo would pay a terrible price, but his discoveries would change the world. Galileo was born into a world where each morning reaffirmed the common view that the Sun moved around the Earth. This belief was confirmed as the sun appeared to pass overhead each day. It was a view of the universe originally set out by the ancient philosopher Aristotle. In the center sat the static earth, the home of man. The Sun was just one of many heavenly bodies which circled endlessly around it. Dissenting from this accepted worldview could prove hazardous. A statue of Father Giordano Bruno marks the site in Rome where he was burned alive for a host of unorthodox beliefs. The Vatican considered astronomy to be an investigation of God's work. The Church's universities had seven basic subjects that you had to pass before you could go onto philosophy and theology. One of those subjects was astronomy. Studying the stars was a way of getting themselves out of the mundane world, into a world that was more transcendent, a world that was beautiful, a world that was eternal. : For the Church, there was also a practical reason to study the heavens. The sky was both a clock and a calendar. Behind the walls of convents, sunrise and sunset defined the cycle of morning and evening prayer. Each spring, the planting of the gardens would commence with the coming of the Equinox. The Winter Solstice foreshadowed Christmas, and the phases of the moon fixed the exact dates of Lent and Easter. The Church used the calendar to give spiritual significance to Aristotle's earth-centered astronomy. The images were very useful for teaching theology. The earth is not the center of the universe in that it's in a privileged place. It's at the bottom of the universe. Only hell is lower. And there's a chain of creation reaching up to heaven. As a young man, Galileo toyed briefly with the idea of becoming a priest. Instead he entered the University of Pisa as a medical student in 1581. The curriculum at Pisa was prescribed by the Jesuit authorities in Rome. Even the anatomy diagrams in Galileo's textbooks had to be approved by the Jesuits. Galileo left medicine behind after only a few months and began, instead, to study mathematics. Among the many writings he left behind is an eloquent tribute to the power of mathematics to illuminate the world. GALILEO: This grand book, the universe, could only be understood if one learned to comprehend the language and the alphabet in which it is composed. That is, the language of mathematics—triangles and circles, geometric figures—without which it was impossible, humanly impossible, to understand a word of it. Without it, one wandered as in a dark labyrinth. : It's so confusing, the world. Where do we find truth? Where is the real truth? And there was a sort of consensus, which Galileo felt very deeply, that in mathematics you had real truth. If there was anywhere where human beings could think like God, it was when they were thinking about mathematics.