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+ January 11, 2021 “THE Case Galileo” is often raised to question the Church’s stand on science and faith; some love to picture it as “science vs faith.”
Galileo was born in Pisa, Italy in 1564, the year Sir Isaac Newton died. Baptized with a long Italian name Galileo de Vincenzo Bonaulti di Galilei, he grew up to be one day considered father of modern astronomy, physics, modern science and scientific method.
He discovered Saturn’s rings and Jupiter’s four large moons: Ganymede, Europa, Io and Callisto. Also, he invented the thermometer.
But he rattled Church authorities when following Copernicus’, and not Ptolemy’s, heliocentric theory Galileo said that the earth goes around the sun, not the other way around. Consequently, Galileo questioned Joshua 10:12-13 -- Joshua commanded the sun not to go down until he could completely defeat Israel’s enemies. Based on the Copernican theory, that is false! Furthermore, Galileo cited a basic rule in logic: “Falsity in one, falsity in all” (Falsum in uno, falsum in toto). So, since the Bible contains falsities, it is false!