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Galileo on the Use of Reason

November 19, 2007 | 1 Comment

Posted by michaelp · Filed Under Christian Philosophy, Prolegomena

Catholic Italian physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), who’s findings, while condemned by the church (blush), forged the backbone of modern astronomy as he discovered that the earth moved around the sun, not the sun around the earth, had this to say concerning the Christian’s use of the mind and science:
I do not feel obliged […]