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	:: Scientists are qualified to do science. They are not qualified by their scientific credentials to do history. You might exercise a little bit of critical thinking when you come up against their historical claims. "Doubt everything," especially when a scientist stops doing science and dabbles in other disciplines like history, philosophy, politics, ethics, and religion.		:: Scientists are qualified to do science. They are not qualified by their scientific credentials to do history. You might exercise a little bit of critical thinking when you come up against their historical claims. "Doubt everything," especially when a scientist stops doing science and dabbles in other disciplines like history, philosophy, politics, ethics, and religion.

	:; "Galileo<nowiki>:</nowiki> Rude, Arrogant, and Almost Entirely Wrong"		:; [https://youtu.be/TvEWQDz1jYM "Galileo<nowiki>:</nowiki> Rude, Arrogant, and Almost Entirely Wrong" -- YouTube presentation]

	:: This was a "Theology on Tap" presentation in 2009.		:: This was originally a "Theology on Tap" presentation in 2009.

	::* [http://moleski.net/pix/Galileo.pdf .pdf version of the slideshow]		::* [http://moleski.net/pix/Galileo.pdf .pdf version of the slideshow]

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	:: ~~LÃ©on~~ Foucault used a pendulum to demonstrate the motion of the earth around its axis.		:: Léon Foucault used a pendulum to demonstrate the motion of the earth around its axis.

	=== Modernity and Post-Modernity (20th to 21st AD) ===		=== Modernity and Post-Modernity (20th to 21st AD) ===

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	:: Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica shows how the concept of gravity, coupled with Galileo's laws of motion, explains Kepler's ellipses. Newton's laws of motion:		:: Newton's ''Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica'' shows how the concept of gravity, coupled with Galileo's laws of motion, explains Kepler's ellipses.
			::; Newton's laws of motion:

	::: 1. Every body in motion or at rest tends to stay in motion or at rest unless a force acts on it.		::: 1. Every body in motion or at rest tends to stay in motion or at rest unless a force acts on it.
	::: 2. Force is measured as mass times acceleration (F = ma); the force of gravity is G * m<sub>1</sub> * m<sub>2</sub> / d<sup>2</sup>).		::: 2. Force is measured as mass times acceleration (F = ma); the force of gravity is G * m<sub>1</sub> * m<sub>2</sub> / d<sup>2</sup>).

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	:: Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica shows how the concept of gravity, coupled with Galileo's laws of motion, explains Kepler's ellipses. Newton's laws of motion:		:: Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica shows how the concept of gravity, coupled with Galileo's laws of motion, explains Kepler's ellipses. Newton's laws of motion:
	::: 1. Every body in motion or at rest tends to stay in motion or at rest unless a force acts on it.		::: 1. Every body in motion or at rest tends to stay in motion or at rest unless a force acts on it.
	::: 2. Force is measured as mass times acceleration ( F = ma; ~~Fgravity =~~ G ~~m1m2~~ / d2).		::: 2. Force is measured as mass times acceleration (F = ma); the force of gravity is G * m<sub>1</sub> * m<sub>2</sub> / d<sup>2</sup>).
	::: 3. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.		::: 3. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

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	* [http://home.comcast.net/~icuweb/c02900.htm "Galileo: Science and Religion."]		* [http://home.comcast.net/~icuweb/c02900.htm "Galileo: Science and Religion."]
	* [http://www.strangenotions.com/galileo-controversy/ ''Catholic Answers,'' "The Galileo Controversy."]		* [http://www.strangenotions.com/galileo-controversy/ ''Catholic Answers,'' "The Galileo Controversy."]
	* [https://www.amazon.com/Galileos-Mistake-Confrontation-between-Galileo/dp/1611451566 Galileo's Mistake: A New Look at the Epic Confrontation between Galileo and the Church]		* [https://www.amazon.com/Galileos-Mistake-Confrontation-between-Galileo/dp/1611451566 Galileo's Mistake: A New Look at the Epic Confrontation between Galileo and the Church.]

	[[Category:Catholicism and Science]]		[[Category:Catholicism and Science]]

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	* [http://home.comcast.net/~icuweb/c02900.htm "Galileo: Science and Religion."]		* [http://home.comcast.net/~icuweb/c02900.htm "Galileo: Science and Religion."]
	* [http://www.strangenotions.com/galileo-controversy/ ''Catholic Answers,'' "The Galileo Controversy."]		* [http://www.strangenotions.com/galileo-controversy/ ''Catholic Answers,'' "The Galileo Controversy."]
			* [https://www.amazon.com/Galileos-Mistake-Confrontation-between-Galileo/dp/1611451566 Galileo's Mistake: A New Look at the Epic Confrontation between Galileo and the Church]

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	:: Anti-Catholics systematically misrepresent the controversy AS IF Galileo had adopted the Kepler-Newton understanding of our own day or AS IF he had made observations that clinched the argument in his favor. Nothing could be further from the truth.		:: Anti-Catholics systematically misrepresent the controversy AS IF Galileo had adopted the Kepler-Newton understanding of our own day or AS IF he had made observations that clinched the argument in his favor. Nothing could be further from the truth.

	:: Scientists are qualified to do science. They are not qualified by their scientific credentials to do history. You might exercise a little bit of critical thinking when you come up against their historical claims. "Doubt everything," especially when a scientist stops doing science and dabbles in other disciplines.		:: Scientists are qualified to do science. They are not qualified by their scientific credentials to do history. You might exercise a little bit of critical thinking when you come up against their historical claims. "Doubt everything," especially when a scientist stops doing science and dabbles in other disciplines like history, philosophy, politics, ethics, and religion.

	:; "Galileo<nowiki>:</nowiki> Rude, Arrogant, and Almost Entirely Wrong"		:; "Galileo<nowiki>:</nowiki> Rude, Arrogant, and Almost Entirely Wrong"

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	:: Galileo did not prove the truth of heliocentrism; he asserted it as an article of faith. His appeal to tidal motion did NOT establish heliocentrism; it showed that the moon moves around the earth, not that the earth moves around the sun. He rejected Kepler's laws of planetary motion and clung to the cycles and epicycles required by the Greek assumptions of perfect circular motion and uniform velocity. He added nothing to Copernicus' derivation of the relative size and period of planetary orbits. He failed to apply his laws of motion to planetary motion; Newton did that after Galileo was dead. The astronomical observations that supported heliocentrism were not made until 98 to 218 years after the second trial of Galileo. Galileo treated as a fact what was NOT an established fact in his day, he insulted the Pope, who had been a personal benefactor of his, and he commented on the Scriptures without any scientific need to do so. He asked for trouble, and he got it.		:: Galileo did not prove the truth of heliocentrism; he asserted it as an article of faith. His appeal to tidal motion did NOT establish heliocentrism; it showed that the moon moves around the earth, not that the earth moves around the sun. He rejected Kepler's laws of planetary motion and clung to the cycles and epicycles required by the Greek assumptions of perfect circular motion and uniform velocity. He added nothing to Copernicus' derivation of the relative size and period of planetary orbits. He failed to apply his laws of motion to planetary motion; Newton did that after Galileo was dead. The astronomical observations that supported heliocentrism were not made until 98 to 218 years after the second trial of Galileo in 1633. Galileo treated as a fact what was ''NOT'' an established fact in his day, he insulted the Pope, who had been a personal benefactor of his, and he commented on the Scriptures without any scientific need to do so. Galileo asked for trouble, and he got it.

	:: Anti-Catholics systematically misrepresent the controversy AS IF Galileo had adopted the Kepler-Newton understanding of our own day or AS IF he had made observations that clinched the argument in his favor. Nothing could be further from the truth.		:: Anti-Catholics systematically misrepresent the controversy AS IF Galileo had adopted the Kepler-Newton understanding of our own day or AS IF he had made observations that clinched the argument in his favor. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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 Those who engage in scientific and technological research admit as the premise of its progress, that the world is not a chaos but a "cosmos"--that is to say, that there exist order and natural laws which can be grasped and examined, and which, for this reason, have a certain affinity with the spirit. Einstein used to say: '''"What is eternally incomprehensible in the world is that it is comprehensible."'''<ref> In ''The Journal of the Franklin Institute'', vol. 221, n. 3, March 1936. </ref> This intelligibility, attested to by the marvelous discoveries of science and technology, leads us, in the last analysis, to that transcendent and primordial Thought imprinted on all things.
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