The Sight Of Science

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examining the
relationship between objects and expressing them in concise formulas, applied to
the entire realm of knowledge, permits him to exercise his own reason to the
best of his ability. Since nothing in philosophy is certain, it is evident that
he must discover his own philosophical principles.
Galileo's views on science and religion, as seen from his Letter to the
Grand Dutchess Christina are very radical for his times. He suggests that
physical sciences must be separated from theological studies because the goals
of the two disicplines are totally different: theology is concerned with
salvation of the soul, while the sciences are concerned with understanding of
nature. He believes that the clergy apply faith where ther is none involved --
one cannot undersand nature just by quoting the Scripture because the nature, a
fruit of God's infinite wisdom., defies the simple explanation men's feeble
minds attempt to find in the Bible. To truly understand nature, one has apply
the ...

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soberly to render unto faith that are faith's"
(317). However, Bacon goes further to describe the different uses and abuses of
religion that can either further or impede the adavancement of science. Perhaps
most notable of them is the idea of differentiating true faith from
superstition. The true faith is derived from th e scriptures and applied only
to the matters of salvation, while superstition is a dangerous mixture of
philosophy and religion that is applied to the matters where there is no faith
involved, such as politics and natural sciences. Unlike Galileo and Descartes,
Bacon not only states that religion is not a means of establishing physical
truths because it does not ...

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