How Did Religion Affect European Society

The church itself changed how scientists as a whole worked, scientists didn’t dedicate their works to their inspirations, or their mothers or fathers like most authors (scientific or not) do today. In Copernicus’ case, his work was dedicated it to the church, easily showing how large of a power this was and how is changed the way scientists wrote. In very few to no astrology textbooks from the twenty first century will you find the words ‘moses’ or ‘the wisdom of God’, because while the church is powerful today, it has no where near the ‘sway’ it had back a few hundred years ago. This power not only affected the way people spoke, but how they lived and how history and science and math was recorded, everything revolved around the church, everything was static to the church, and yet later on, it

A dispute really may be about the unseen, perhaps even unconscious, judgements and values. In this week reading assignment, we read a letter to the grand duchess from Galileo, about his scientific views supporting Copernicus as well as his biblical views. In the letter he argues that Copernican theory was not just a mathematical calculating mechanics but a physical reality. He reveal that the Bible can not alone reveal all the meaning of life and first build the duchess with an authority figure and wrote this letter to explain his self esteem to convince the people about the religion he holds. The church believed that science is going to ruin the faith, power and authority. Galileo wasn't purposely saying all these to destroy the church with the facts but he was point out the main thing of educating our self with knowledge. There were misunderstanding that just need some time for

In the early 17th century there was greater tension between the church and scientists, additionally these tensions continued expanding as new discoveries were being made by scientists. These discoveries contradicted the teachings of the church and threatened to undermine their authority. The church argued that God was the creator of every living organism on earth, but

This creates intense conflict between Galileo, the church and society. However, over time, the validation of the old beliefs are overlooked in favour of Galileo’s ideas of the universe. In response to this, Galileo realises that the views of the church, and society at large, no longer hold relevant significance and that the ‘truth is born of the times, not of authority’. Therefore, it can be seen that through modern-day change, conflict must be resolved through the introduction of new and applicable

Galileo’s letter to the Grand Duchess Christina caused much controversy when it was written in 1613. It caused such controversy because it was an indirect attack on the Catholic Church with a viewpoint that was not of the ‘status quo’. This essay will thoroughly analyse this document. It will analyse the context behind what was happening in 17th century with regards to science and religion. Secondly it will critically explain and analyse the grounds behind why this document actually holds significance. This will make the argument that Galileo wanted to make the distinction between science and religion.

From the invention of the birth control pill to the first successful in vitro fertilization. During this time period, scientific innovations seemed to have made a notable jump. The Catholic Church viewed the growth of knowledge in scientific fields to be something similar to a pattern or perhaps a road. Although the benefitting aspects of advancement were impactful, they couldn't ignore the other distinguishable repercussions that emerged from this as well. They noticed these technological proliferations, helped in guiding others to sin. When the expansion of possibilities presented itself, it did not just allow people’s lives to become easier, the opportunity to sin or cause error in God’s plan of living became more

The rise of science was connected to the romanticism era. This seemed to conflict with religion because many felt psychic dislocation. Science had taken the traditional values and conventional reality out of their world. They tried to force individual meaning for institutions and principles seemed to have little truth. “Philosophically they reacted against the materialistic educational theories of Locke and rationalism.” (Intro to America) More truth was found in the matter of intuition and imagination than logic and reason. The mechanistic view of the universe was rejected. (Intro to American

Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked into his telescope to see things that were revolutionary for his time. His instrument allowed the world to see the unseen, and this brought about many challenges. Most intellectuals were at best skeptical about his findings because they put into focus phenomena that no one knew existed, and could only be viewed through Galileo’s devices. To intensify matters, Galileo lived during a time when the church and influential patrons needed to approve all scientific research and discoveries. The church was restrictive of many scientific advancements, for they often went against the churches teachings, and Galileo, like many scientists, needed some sort of support from patrons to support his research. This skepticism

People began to question old, medieval traditional authorities and views and began to invent machines to help assist voyages and the producing of books containing the spread new concepts and research found by scientists. The world before the time when scientific reasoning had largely influenced Europe was filled with the minds of people whose thoughts stuck and mainly believed in the old judgements and ideas formed by old philosophers forming the medieval traditional view. That view was spread all throughout Europe and the church supported these beliefs too further accomplishing the influence the old view had on the people before the Scientific Revolution. However, when people tried accomplishing new tasks such as exploring and wanted to know more about the physical world and began questioning old statements, innovations to thinking and technology were made also unlocking the possibility of the Scientific Revolution and the spread of scientific learning to occur. These innovations made in thinking included the Neoplatonism and the Hermetic Doctrine and innovations in technology included machines helping to creating books a quicker, faster way and invent instruments to help sailors navigate the globe for their explorations.

This paper will be discussing the research of Galileo Galilei and why the church stopped him from continuing any of his research by explaining who he was, what was his research, and why the church prevented him from continuing any research in the future.

Copernicus “lived, worked and died in that period which is generally regarded as a transition from the so-called middle ages to modern times. It was a period of the revival of learning and of the birth of modern science.” Copernicus’ discoveries led to the formation of the branch of science that we continue to develop and refine today. In effect, it was the beginning of the scientific method of inquiry as we know it today, because it finally drew the distinction between religion and science; it resulted in “…the destruction of a worldview that science (in the person of Ptolemy), philosophy (in the person of Aristotle) and religion (Jewish, Christian and Islamic) [were] centred on man and created for him.” By rejecting the idea that the Earth and man were at the center of the universe, Copernicus’ discoveries fundamentally changed the goal of the field of science.

In the article “Copernicus heliocentric view” 1543 Copernicus published a revolutionary book that changed the way people view the universe. When Copernicus was in school, his professors believed that the earth was the center of the universe. Copernicus began to question those ideas. He was always taught the Ptolemy's view of the universe, but Copernicus found mathematical errors in ptolemy's work. Ptolemy's view of epicycles did not accurately predict the

Christianity and philosophical tradition found themselves freshly and mutually challenged during the scientific revolution. Human reason was rapidly leading to new discovers and conclusions about the natural world. Some of these new conclusions contradicted the views and teachings of Christianity. These conflicts led some to conclude that science and religion were not completely compatible. Descartes, a scientist during this time, set out to show that the two subjects were not only compatible, but were closely linked to each other.

Galileo was a prime example of a conflict between the Catholic Church and science. He was a devout roman catholic, however a great scientist. Galileo had many contributions to the world such as the telescope and his many discoveries in outer space. However one of the more widely recognized was his support to Copernicus’ theory of heliocentricity. Before this the church had stated that the sun revolved around the earth, known as the theory of geocenctricity. Galileo’s teachings were consequently banned by the church, and Galileo himself imprisoned. However, in 1992 the Vatican under Pope John Paul II held a ceremony to proclaim that Galileo was right in his findings and support of Copernicus. (Tracts) This shows that the present day church does not see science as a threat or interference to its teachings. The present day church actually supports science, as well as the theory of evolution by natural selection.

In the following statement, Galileo stated the reasons for his rejection which is due to “possibly because they are disturbed by the known truth of other propositions of mine which differ from those commonly held” (Galileo). In the previous statement, Galileo talks about how the people in his time had this stubborn mindset of not considering new ideas, concepts, and facts other than the scriptures alone (Galileo). As a result, this limits the progression of new ideas and thinking such as taking in consideration of different ideas and facts which would have possibly led to finding out that the geocentric universe was not correct. This idea that religion and science are not able to support the other community continues to exist to this day. In one of the Core lectures, Brother Guy Consolmagno talked about how the public community does not accept the fact that both science and religion ideas can support one another. This is because throughout history there has been this tendency of conflict between the communities of both science and religion. Therefore, this strengthens the idea that religion and science are not able to work with one another. As a result, this causes issues for scientists who incorporate their religion into their scientific works. This affects those types of scientists on a social scale because the public has