Final Quotes Flashcards
“All spheres surround the Sun as though it were in the middle of all of them, and therefore the Sun is near the __________.” - Charles E. Hummel
middle of the universe
Paraphrase Josh 10:12-13
Joshua told the sun to stop and it didn’t go down for a whole day
“… after becoming certain of some physical conclusions, we should use these as very appropriate ___ to the correct interpretation of Scripture.” - Galileo’s Letter to Christina
aids
“I do not think one has to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, language,and intellect would want us to set aside the use of these. … Indeed, who wants the human mind put to death? … When one is in possession of this [scientific information] it too is a ___ from God.” - Galileo’s Letter to Christina
gift
The Scripture “speak[s] ______ of the earth, water, sun, or other created thing… sciences [are] discussed in Scripture to a very minor extent and with disconnected statements…” - Galileo’s Letter to Christina
incidentally
“Propositions dictated by the Holy Spirit were expressed by the sacred writers in such a way as to ______ the capacities of the very unrefined and undisciplined masses…” - Galileo’s Letter to Christina
accommodate
What is the gist of Galileo’s Letter to Christina?
“The intention of the Holy Spirit is to teach us how one goes to heaven, and not how heaven goes.”
“The word _______ [in the Bible] is literally very appropriate for the stellar sphere [ie, the sphere of fixed stars] and everything above the planetary orbs, which is totallystill and motionless according to this arrangement [Copernican astronomy].” - Galileo’s Letter to Christina
firmament
“Galileo’s judges, incapable of dissociating _____ from an _____________, believed quite wrongly that the adoption of the Copernican revolution, was such as to undermine Catholic tradition.” - Poupard
faith, age-old cosmology
“It can be shown clearly in many other ways that a ____________ came upon the earth, by which those people are persuaded who believe with difficulty that these things were explained by Moses [the traditional author of the Book of Genesis]. For even today in mountains that are lofty and difficult to climb, ______ remains are found; this is, shells and fragments of tortoise shells and other such things, which even ourselves have seen.” - Quoted in Davis A. Young
universal flood, marine
“… (There is no problem in regard to domestic animals or to those which, like frogs, spring directly from the _____.) - St Augustine
soil
“… The results of their new learning turned up in numerous global deluge theories published during the late 17th (1600s) and early 18th (1700s) centuries. During this period, the ___________ of mainstream theoretical earth science in Europe.” - Young
flood was at the center
“By the beginning of the 19th century, the interpretation of geological strata had changed radically. Virtually ____________ thought that the thick sequences of stratified sedimentary rocks so evident in quarries, cliffs, and, therefore, mountains had anything to do with the flood.” — Young
no established geologist
“… There is no question that this option is unsettling, but in the hands of sanctified believers, it can point the way to an _______ understanding of the Bible” - Young
improved
“A Geologist perhaps would suggest that the ____________ have been distinct & remote the one from the other; that the Creator rested in his labor.” - Darwin
periods of Creation
