James Burke : The Day The Universe Changed: "Infinitely Reasonable", 2 of 5 (CC)

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Episode 5 of James Burke's ground-breaking series "The Day The Universe Changed" which explores the evolution of Western Scientific thought starting from the fall of Rome.

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[TheDarkSpam]

@DrLohr The Bible clearly puts the Earth and human beings at the "center" of

God's attentions, and this focus has led believers, throughout much of

history, to assume that -- just as we are at the spiritual center of

all things -- the Earth is also at the physical center of the

universe. But strictly speaking - NO "The Bible" never explicitly states

that Earth is at the center of the universe. Hair-splitting.

[Jcolinsol]

@Bondianwolf

No, I did not, and also, I am not Dutch. Synchronicity!

[DrLohr]

Mr. Burke: The Bible never proclaimed that the "Earth" was the center of the universe...simply that "God was.

[Maximara]

@Maximara another fact people don't know is that the the Roman Inquisition CLEARED of hearsay charges for heliocentrism by no less then the Roman Inquisition in 1615. Then the NEXT year the Roman Catholic Church declared heliocentrism hearsay IN DIRECT DEFIANCE OF THEIR OWN INQUISITION. The more you dig on the the worse the Catholic Church--hypocritical and ignoring their own policy enforcing bodies and they have paid the prince and will continue until they come clean.

[Maximara]

Actually the Church did NOT follow all of Aristotle's teachings. For example they said there were only four elements-he said there were FIVE (Fire, Earth, Air, Water, and Quintessence). Furthermore as Burke pointed out the Church itself had used the Sun centered universe for calendar reform since the Council of Trent-- nearly *90 years* before Galileo published his book.

[fredmontier2006]

...and Pope Urban was a friend of Galileo and even gave him the idea to write about it using figures(personas) to be better understood. But was clear that he was one of the major characters in the book mooked by Galileo.

Otherwise, he would have been killed as soon as the first book were published.

[Jcolinsol]

Lul, Aristotle was such a prick.

[JamesBurkeWeb]

Which, of course, is why they had a problem with it ;)

[JamesBurkeWeb]

But Roman Catholic Christianity (RCC) was based on Aristotle's being unquestionable at that time.

What I mean is, Aristotle was the authority to which the RCC would defer so that all conclusions drawn through his assumptions and arguments were the one and the same with RCC teachings. If Aristotle was wrong then any rules or laws laid down by the RCC based on Aristotle would be open to question meaning church rule would be in jeopardy to say the least.

- JBW

[squeezetruck]

Not in terms of Christianity, in terms of Aristotle. Only the Catholic church ever had a problem with it.