“With hindsight, it is truly remarkable that, as early as the sixteenth century, Copernicus and his disciple Georg Joachim Rheticus (1514–74) resolved the issue to their satisfaction by invoking the patristic distinction between the Bible’s teaching on spiritual and eternal… — Gary B. Ferngren Copy Share
“In Victorian times, one of the more serious reasons for opposing Darwin was the fear that his theories would lead to the law of… — Gary B. Ferngren Copy Share Image
“Their goal is to deepen our comprehension of the discussions themselves instead of justifying particular views involved in current debates.” — Gary B. Ferngren Copy Share Image
“If they were right, there was an absence of conflict not only over the specific case of cosmology but, in principle, over anything else… — Gary B. Ferngren Copy Share Image
“In Victorian times, one of the more serious reasons for opposing Darwin was the fear that his theories would lead to the law of… — Gary B. Ferngren Copy Share Image
“E. A. Burtt argued that the foundations of science were often theological.” — Gary B. Ferngren Copy Share Image
“If they were right, there was an absence of conflict not only over the specific case of cosmology but, in principle, over anything else… — Gary B. Ferngren Copy Share Image
“With hindsight, it is truly remarkable that, as early as the sixteenth century, Copernicus and his disciple Georg Joachim Rheticus (1514–74) resolved the issue to their satisfaction by invoking the patristic distinction between the Bible’s teaching on spiritual and eternal realities and its descriptions of the natural world in the language of ordinary people. Rheticus specifically appealed to Augustine’s doctrine… — Gary B. Ferngren Copy Share
“In short, the interaction between science and religion in the Middle Ages was not an abstract encounter between bodies of fixed ideas but part… — Gary B. Ferngren Copy Share Image
“The Middle Ages have served as a historical arena within which two schools of thought have done battle—one school accusing the medieval church of… — Gary B. Ferngren Copy Share Image
“The Judeo-Christian view, in contrast, historically regarded nature as the nonliving creation of a rational God, not cyclic but with a definite beginning and… — Gary B. Ferngren Copy Share Image
“Science’s best-known victories were those of Copernicanism and Darwinism.” — Gary B. Ferngren Copy Share Image
