Religion and Science are Compatible: Just Ask Galileo

Religion and Science are Compatible: Just Ask Galileo May 2, 2016

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Pictoral Theology posted the image above, and I’m not surprised that Jerry Coyne thought highly of it. But both the creation and the approval indicate a disappointing level of misinformation about Galileo. Galileo was a devout religious person whose whole life and activity embody the compatibility of religion and science. He also embodied the same kind of confident arrogance and smugness that made enemies of those who disagreed with him, that one too often encounters among those who promulgate the myth that science is at war with religion.

Anyone who thinks that Galileo demonstrates that science and religion are incompatible must be truly and profoundly ignorant about even the basics about Galileo!


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