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I think Christianity had the fight with science during Copernicus and Galileo. Islam never had that fight. And since Islam claimed to be the last and final word
by ilrwbwrkhv 3y ago
I think Christianity had the fight with science during Copernicus and Galileo. Islam never had that fight. And since Islam claimed to be the last and final word of god, it became really hard to change it.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Christianity had the fight with science during Copernicus and Galileo. Islam never had that fight. The article literally describes that fight in the backlash to Al-Mamum's oppressive secularism.
- jcranmer 3y ago> I think Christianity had the fight with science during Copernicus and Galileo. You are aware that Copernicus was a Catholic priest, right?
- OkayPhysicist 3y agoGalileo's story is a bit exaggerated in the popular zeitgeist. Promoting heliocentrism vs geocentrism as a scientific theory may have annoyed the church, but he was ultimately granted permission to publish his findings. It was the satirical, strawman representation of the geocentrist (and, by extension, the Pope) as a complete idiot in his published dialogue that got him imprisoned.