Word: copernican
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...irreconcilability of a literal interpretation of the Bible with certain established scientific truths, such as the Copernican or Darwinian theories...
...more than any other, and of the three factors vying for second place, two are equally epistemic. "philosophical considerations, such as logical refutations of theoretical proofs of the existence of God" and "the irreconcilability of a literal interpretation of the Bible with certain established scientific truths, such as the Copernican or Darwinian theories...
Science then meant Aristotelian science, even though the Copernican system had been adopted by the 1660's. There were no laboratories until the eighteenth century, and the only piece of scientific apparatus the College owned until that time was a telescope presented by Governor Winthrop...
...hates criticism, can quote whole paragraphs from unfavorable reviews that appeared ten years ago. He likes reassurances?the backstage compliments, the perquisite Cadillacs, the fawning headwaiters, the fluty dowagers, the company of fame. He is brash and often tactless. He suffers from what was once described as a pre-Copernican ego, i.e., seeing the whole world revolve around him. The condition was described by his onetime mentor, Conductor Artur Rodzinski, with an expressive Jewish word that means cheek, nerve, monumental gall. "He has hutzpa," says Rodzinski, and illustrates what he means with the story of how Bernstein, a mere...
...enough, it was under the prompting of Pope Urban VIII that Galileo began Dialogue on the Great World Systems, the masterpiece for which he was to be punished by the Inquisition. Warily checking his signals with the Pontiff. Galileo found that the Pope had only two reservations: i) the Copernican theory must be treated as a hypothesis, not as a certainty, and 2) since God was omnipotent and might create and govern the universe in any way He chose, Galileo was to put forth no proposition which "necessitated" God to operate in any one fixed way. Galileo abided...