The truth is available, but misotheists persist in using biased and uninformed sources to further the idea that "religion" is opposed to science. They also ignore how he was unpleasant at times and wrong in several areas. It occurs to me that even if Mr. Galilei was actually persecuted because he went against dogma, it would mean certain Roman Catholic dogmas were threatened, so that organization reacted. It would not mean religion and science are at war. Hasty generalization?
Copernicus deserves the highest recognition because he mathematically described how the Earth rotated around the Sun. While others before him only speculated. Galileo with the aid of a telescope ONLY proved Copernicus was right.
What led to the widespread and unfettered distribution of Copernicus' truly revolutionary heliocentric work, when Galileo some 90 years later met such severe opposition from Catholic church authorities? The church philosophers were steeped in Aristotle's geocentric view at the time, accepted as dogma ever since one of its seminal theologians, Thomas Acquinas, had used the arguments of Aristotle as proofs for the existence of the Christian God to counter the Muslim theologians who were doing the same for Allah at the time. I contend it was the forward to de Revolutionibus, written anonymously by a Protestant theologian by the name of Andreas Osiander, much to the chagrin of Copernicus. Osiander was tasked by a student of Copernicus to get the work published at Copernicus' behest, who by then was nearing death. Osiander realized how such a revolutionary viewpoint of the universe would be taken by Catholic church authorities. So he decided, without Copernicus’ approval, to pen an anonymous forward defending the endeavor, in which he took a more pragmatic rather than idealistic perspective, stating in essence that the theory may or may not be true, but that the reader should at least consider it as a way to make a more accurate calendar which was a key focus at the time (the Gregorian calendar, still in use today, was adopted some 18 years after Copernicus' death). Understandably, Copernicus was livid when he found out about the forward, but I believe it actually saved his hide and legacy. For it led to the widespread and largely unopposed dissemination of his work such that Galileo was able to use it and his telescope to prove the sun was at the center of the solar system, in direct contradiction to what philosophers had believed for almost 2,000 years. That spelled the end of philosophy (and Aristotelian deductive syllogistic reasoning) as the dominant source of truth in universities and the rise of science (inductive reasoning) to replace it, despite the mathematician/philosopher René Descartes' vain attempt to re-establish such deductive reasoning on a more firm foundation, the one premise that was undoubtedly true. Such pragmatism is the reason engineering and technology play such a vital role in society today. I'll have to admit I'm a bit biased. I'm an engineer and a descendent of Andreas Osiander. Andreas married Barbara Häyland. Their fifth-generation great-granddaughter Christina Barbara Osiander Epting emigrated to Newberry, SC, USA in the 1700's.
I have wondered about recently why there is no writing before the Bronze Age as if intelligence has been decreasing over time , why is there no writing in the neolythic period or are they hiding the writing from us
@Jonathan Sarfati because if we question history from a biblical perspective, I believe in biblical history RU-vid comments also help you with the RU-vid algorithm even if they are not on the topic 🙂 as that's how RU-vid works , it helps you reach a larger audience. As in the UK I have not more had to deal with evolutionist but people who believe in Atlantis and the young dryas period and bright insights stuff Also with things like chat gpt which can bring resources on Galileo reference at a click as I was interested it what new things you bring to the table as I have watched the video 🙂
In the Bible man was smelting very early in the book of Genesis. Much of this knowledge was lost at the Tower of Babel. So a modern Archeologist with a secular education would recognize a tool made from bronze but would not find it the animal parchment or the papyrus that they wrote the tales of the men that were slayed by it. And unless they knew Chinese they wouldn’t know that the Chinese characters inside the word symbols were telling the story of the book of Genesis. They would be inclined to believe that Chinese was the oldest written language and that it was younger than the sword. Unless you are going out of your way to educate yourself you would not come across any other evidence in secular books and you would not hear it from the teachers who have only read the secular literature. So that’s going to color your view of everything that you see and you would filter it through that because you quite literally don’t know any better and you end up asking the wrong questions because you don’t even know enough to know what to ask.
My primer for telling what is true and false is the WORD of God. KJV was published to King James could have a Bible in his Kingdom both protestant and Anglican both would use. All commentary removed, just the Word. Just as God ordained, His divine hand in. If something doesn't add up in math, than the equation is wrong. Anything that occurs naturally in the world when changed will have a ripple effect. Switching to Gregorian was fine, but removing days say 14 days will cause a ripple. Now we got leap years, forever going to have to recalculate to adjust. (Bronze age Collapse / Tower of Babel) - Bible has more answers than we know.
