(February 6, 2010 at 12:09 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Galileo didn't interpret scripture to come up with the heliocentric view, he simply followed the evidence. He then argued against a literal reading of scripture, since the scripture was literally wrong.
What I said was that Galileo supported his heliocentric concept with a more accurate interpretation of scripture. He wrote to a pupil: “Even though Scripture cannot err, its interpreters and expositors can, in various ways. One of these, very serious and very frequent, would be when they always want to stop at the purely literal sense." The scripture was not literally wrong it was taken literally wrong.
(February 6, 2010 at 12:09 pm)Tiberius Wrote: The separation between science and religion / philosophy is caused by far more than one event. It is caused by the numerous scientific ideas that the Bible seemingly rejects, such as Evolution, the Big Bang, etc. Are you saying all the Biblical stories relating to creation are also wrongly interpreted?
The OP stated the beginning of the clash between science and the Bible. That the Bible and science don't always agree should hardly be surprising, science doesn't always agree with science or wouldn't be science. I think that when science becomes dogmatic the importance of the disagreement is naturally more intense. I wouldn't be at all surprised if most Biblical understanding, related to creation or otherwise, is more often than not wrongly interpreted.
