Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Lecture 5
Many of the problems that Gallileo had were because of differences between personal interpretations of scripture and the official interpretations. Should theologic knowledge be treated any differently than scientific knowledge; i.e. scripture is generally interpreted while scientific books are treated as fact NOT open to interpretation?
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I would say that scripture should be treated as different from scientific literature. I think this because science is based on experimentation and should therefore only be refuted or edited by empirical evidence, while scripture is based on human interpretation of the natural world, and may therefore be refuted by an equaly well-reasoned interpretation.
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