Blog post 2
URLs of sources: http://www.school.eb.com/all/comptons/article-9274476?query=Galileo%20church&ct=null
- In what ways has religion stopped scientific truths from being accepted?
- "In 1616 galileo received a formal warning that the Copernican theory was contrary to the teachings of the church."- This kind of thinking seemed to come from the church every time somebody created a scientific theory that contradicted their beliefs. They were unable to tolerate new ideas. The roman catholic church put him under house arrest for the final eight years of his life for teaching the Copernican theory that we were not the center of the universe. He wasn't pardoned until almost 350 years later.
- The church seemed to be stopping any information that might cause people to falter in their beliefs, they were unable to adapt or accept ONE new idea of a respected astronomer for 350 years, just because they had been teaching something else for so long.
You made some good points on how the church rejected Galileo and his teachings. I agree with what you said about that because you backed it up with facts on how he was put into jail and how the church rejected any new ideas.
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