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Science and the Bible: Galileo and the Garden of Eden
Davis examines what one of Galileo's contemporaries, Cardinal Bellarmine, said about earth’s motion and the Bible. Davis also looks briefly at how creationists today accept Galileo’s use of accommodation for biblical passages about astronomy, but reject such an approach to the early chapters of Genesis.
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Galileo and the Garden of Eden: The Principle of Accommodation and the Book of Genesis, Part 1
In 1615, Cardinal Bellarmine admitted that if there were “a true demonstration” of the Copernican theory, then we might need to reinterpret some biblical passages. When do we have enough evidence for a scientific conclusion to warrant a re-interpretation of the Bible?
Galileo and the Garden of Eden: The Principle of Accommodation and the Book of Genesis, Part 2
If we accept the general validity of the historical sciences, then we cannot avoid asking hard questions about our understanding of the biblical text.