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Various models determine if the relationship between religion and science is characterized by harmony and conflict. These models either assert that religion and science agree or if religion and science are in unavoidable conflict. The Galileo affair is mostly cited as proof that religion and science conflict. Galileo was a brilliant physicist, inventor, and brilliant engineer. His improving for Telescope helped him to see things that no human beings could never see before such as Jupiter's moon, problematically. He had evidence that not everything orbited around the Earth. He urged that the earth is fixed in the center while the stars and planets are metaphysical beings that revolved around it (NutshellEdu, 2104). Thus, he paved way for the Heliocentric model. Also, he concluded that the sun does not set but the earth rotates around it. He had better observations, better technology, and better physicians compared to Copernicus. However, the Catholic church sentenced him to long life arrest because he was unable to convince the church that heliocentrism did not contradict the bible. The church responded that Galileo's Heliocentric theory on the solar system was not monolithic. According to Biblical literalist interpolation of the bible, the earth was stationary and the sun orbited around. The bible interpolation was literal rather than as metaphor or poetry. However, Galileo being a man of faith argued that the bible taught on salvation rather than cosmos nature. This shows that he was true to the book of nature and scripture.
John Locke was a politician who advocated for constitutionalism. He rejected the idea of divine rights and advocated for constitutional government using biblical and philosophical justification. Constitutionalism is the limitation if the government by the law (Ruchey. 2013). He believed that natural rights were given by God to Adam in the book of Genesis. Thus, everybody was given these natural rights which included life. liberty and property. According to him, these rights are difficult to defend and they can be taken away if they are not defended thus the government should protect them. According to him, citizens have the right to revolution if their natural rights were not protected compared to how they wanted them to be protected. He argued for a bloodless revolution. He proposed that people can reform the government so that it can protect their natural rights. He believed that the government was established by the social contract and people should maintain sovereignty and created it to protect them.
Galileo: After realizing that earth is fixed in the center while the stars and planets are metaphysical beings that revolved around it, I was accused of contradicting the bible which states that the earth was stationary and the sun orbited around.
John: Different people have different understandings and interpretations of things. People who oppose our doing and judging according to their understanding as opposed to the truth. so, it is important to stay firm and defend what we believe.
Galileo: The bible teaches about salvation and not cosmos nature. The Bible tells people how to go to heaven and not how heaven goes. The scripture Is about faith rather than science. "God only reviews human being what they can handle at that time of history"
John Locke: I agree with bible teachings on salvation however, it is important to understand that natural rights were given to Adam by God which were later transferred to Human beings and God created people naturally to the monarch. So, it is important for the government should protect natural rights.
Galileo: True, because these natural rights can be taken away if they are not defended. Also, there is a need for civil liberty and individualism against religious oppression.
John: I agree with you. People can give their thoughts without being judged.
References
NutshellEdu. (2104,March3). Galileo Galilei [video]. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMM8vx9vDiE&feature=youtu.be
Ruchey. (2013, November 8) Thomas Hobbes and John Lockie: Two philosophers compared[video]. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2LVcu01QEU&feature=youtu.be