PHIL 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Asa Gray, Geocentric Model, Deism
8 Sep 2016
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His science was said to be correct and the bible was wrong. His heliocentric hypothesis that the universe revolved around the sun was controversial but more accurate than the former geocentric theory. It put the word of the bible lesser than galileo"s. In his dialogue he also based the simpleton character off of the pope at the time and this outraged religious followers. Factors of galileo"s trial: personal: galileo seemed to betray former friend, now pope( maffeo. Barbarini; pope urban viii: scientific: galileo was a brilliant scientist, but findings through telescope not entirely clear, and he could not account for tides, political: thirty years war (1618-48, scripture: how to interpret the bible. Isaac newton (1642-1727: the world as a mechanism. Applied laws of motion to all bodies, including celestial. Note on william paley"s watchmaker analogy( if there is a watch there has to be a watchmaker) Charles darwin(1809-1892: famous journey to galapagos islands (1831-1836)
