Galileo

Question 1

What is the recycle thesis?

Answer 1

The modern origins debate is recycling of the Galileo affair, with different science in question.
Evolutionary Biology instead of astronomy

Question 2

Galileo’s Hermeneutics where way ahead of his time. What 3 principles were most central to his beliefs?

Answer 2

Message-Incident Principle
Principle of Accommodation
Incidental Ancient Science in Scripture

Question 3

What was Nicholas Copernicus’ famous book called? What year was it published?

Answer 3

On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

1543

Question 4

What did the book “On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres” state?

Answer 4

• Written in Latin so not a popular book. And therefore, no public outcry
• Heliocentricity was rarely taught openly during the 16th century
• That the planets moved about the sun in spheres (no concept of gravity so they did not know about elliptical movement). It was believed all planets were held in by a firament.

Question 5

What did Copernicus believe?

Answer 5

• That the planets moved about the sun in spheres (no concept of gravity so they did not know about elliptical movement). It was believed all planets were held in by a firament.
• Thought Ptolemaic astronomy was too complexed and lacked beauty
• Had a person factor (beauty) in science

Question 6

When was the Telescope discovered? by who?

How what?

Answer 6

1609
An unknown Dutchman
A war method

Question 7

What did Galileo use the telescope to prove?

Answer 7

That Aristotle is wrong in belief of Geocentricity 
•Moons were not a perfect sphere 
•There are moving spots on the sun 
•There are 4 moons of Jupiter 
•There are phases of Venus

Question 8

What is Galileo’s most famous book?

When was it published?

Answer 8

Dialogue on the Two Principal World Systems –Ptolemaic and Copernican
1632
•Uses dialogue style
•Pope feels betrayed

Question 9

Galileo did NOT believe science and religion were in a warfare relationship. What did he believe?

Answer 9

• Two Divine Book Model
• Science is a gift from God
• Science was a “very appropriate aid to the correct interpretation of Scripture”

Question 10

Galileo was a Christian. What did he believe?

Answer 10

•The Trinitarian God of Christianity
•The Bible was the Word of God
•Natural Revelation & Intelligent Design
•Divine Action
–Personal Interventionism
–Cosmological Providentialism in operations
•A Scientific Concordist (thought bible affirmed Copernican Astronomy and the Firmament)

Question 11

What professional hermeneutics did Galileo accept?

Answer 11

• Accommodation
• Incidental Ancient Science in Scripture
• Dual Authorial Intentionality in Scripture
• Baconian Hermeneutics
• Message–Incident Principle