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The scientific community at the time had good reason to resist looking through telescopes. The entire scientific edifice was built on 7 planets going back thous
by eternalban 4y ago
The scientific community at the time had good reason to resist looking through telescopes. The entire scientific edifice was built on 7 planets going back thousands of years. What would happen to their medical "sciences", for example, if planet #8 showed up? Also note the church had already accepted Coppernicus's findings earlier. Issue was never the caricature of "bible says" that is claimed. In fact it was Babylonian roots of "sciences" -- everything around number 7 and 7 planets -- that caused a foundational problem. They had to rebuild sciences from the ground up. That was the reason for "jesuit" resistance.
- timeon 4y agoThis OT debate just shows that using analogy as argument is cul-de-sac.
- psychlops 4y agoThat's like saying it's a stalemate.
- pfortuny 4y agoWell, but they did use telescopes. One jesuit even discovered a comet, and it did not show parallax… The jesuits did wrong but were not silly.
- eternalban 4y agoOf course they did. There is no reason to assume people were stupid [in the past] and just got smart overnight. These were smart people struggling with a paradigm shift that would upset almost all their theoretical apple carts. It was an epistomelogical crisis but not of the spiritual flavor as it has been alleged.