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Galileo and the Conflict Between Religion and Science

[Hardback]

by Gregory W Dawes

Author
Gregory W Dawes
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published
March 2016

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For more than 30 years, historians have rejected what they call the 'warfare thesis'-the idea that there is an inevitable conflict between religion and science-insisting that scientists and believers can live in harmony. Taking as its starting point the most famous of all such conflicts, the Galileo affair, this book argues that religious and scientific communities exhibit very different attitudes towards knowledge. Scripturally based religions claim a source of knowledge distinct from human reason. They are also bound by tradition, insist upon the certainty of their beliefs, and are resistant to radical criticism in ways in which the sciences are not. If traditionally minded believers perceive a clash between what their faith tells them and the findings of modern science, they may well do what the Church authorities did in Galileo's time. They may attempt to close down the science, insisting that the authority of God's word trumps that of any 'merely human' knowledge.