accounts on galileo's beliefs in God?
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Galileo's daughter was a nun whe got him out of jail. The Pope (his friend )believe him 100%. Actualy what galileo believed scientifically was already stated in the Bible. The masses(people) that opposed him scientifically because they believed the Greek Theory rather than the Bible. This problem still Exists today.\nThey would rather believed far out unproven Theories rather than the ACcount of Creation in the Bible;(Unintelligent Design and formation of Universe by evolutionary chance)\n\nHYSTORY REPEATS ITSELF!
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EVIDENCE OF GOD\n\nWe live on a planet teeming with life. Plant life with approximately 250,000 species. Animal life with over a million species. Scientist are learning just how complex life is. So complex that it requires design. The evidence of design requires a designer. Scientists are also learning the conditions for life, just how perfect conditions here on planet Earth are to support all this life. \n\nTo think, people believe this all happened by chance. Yes the odds are 1 in 1(with a billion trillion zeros behind it). Yes it is a belief by many that this all just happened by chance. That belief takes a greater faith than believing in a Creator.
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Yes.But I ALSO believe in science.Otherwise we wouldn't be on computers right now since science developed them and we wouldn't be flying since science showed us how to fly and we wouldn't be able to study fossils since science tells us a lot about them.But I do believe God created the whole thing.\n\nI think of God as the engineer and scientists as the under-standers of how the engine works.
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There is a wonderful website I am attaching much of the contents.  Remember this is why Gallileo went on trial.  Columbus was almost denied money because the bible was of course correct.  Columbus was able to find a passage in the Apocrypha that says the Earth is a sphere and that is why he went to the New World.  This includes flatness, geocentrism, solar movement, the blue stuff above us (the ceiling often translated as the firmament literally the arched vault(as in object like the Romans built) in Hebrew), Earth stability and so on.  The shape of the Earth is about 1/5th of the way down.\n\nThe mobility of the sun\nThe most important biblical quote supporting a geocentric universe can be found in the Book of Joshua. This will be used as the starting point for our scriptural cosmology.\n\nJoshua 10:12-13\nThen spoke Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord gave the Amorites over to the men of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, "Sun, stand thou still at Gibeon, and thou Moon in the valley of Aijalon." And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the midst of heaven, and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day.\n\nThe miracle of Joshua appears again as a reference in The Book of Habakkuk.\n\nHabakkuk 3:11\nThe sun and moon stood still in their habitation at the light of thine arrows as they sped, at the flash of thy glittering spear.\n\nThe evidence in support of a geocentric model is overwhelming here. Joshua commanded the sun to stand still. He did not order the earth to cease rotating nor did he qualify his statement with the divine knowledge that the sun was merely made to appear stationary. The sun was commanded to stand still because it is the sun that moves. Descriptions of its motion can be rather poetic.\n\nPsalms 19:4-6\nyet their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, which comes forth like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and like a strong man runs his course with joy. Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them; and there is nothing hid from its heat.\n\nEcclesiastes 1:5\nThe sun rises and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises.\n\nThe stability of the earth\nOn the other side of the geocentric coin, if the sun moves then the earth must not move. There are a few passages which more-or-less forbid the motion of the earth.\n\n1 Chronicles 16:30\ntremble before him, all earth; yea, the world stands firm, never to be moved.\n\nPsalms 93:1\nThe Lord reigns; he is robbed in majesty; the lord is robbed, he is girded with strength. Yea, the world is established; it shall never be moved.\n\nPsalms 96:10\nSay among the nations, "The Lord reigns! Yea, the world is established, it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity."\n\nIn addition, the notion of an earth with a "foundation" is quite common. This leads one to conclude that the earth is quite stable.\n\n2 Samuel 22:16\nThen the channels of the sea were seen, the foundations of the world were laid bare, at the rebuke of the Lord at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.\n\nPsalms 18:15\nThen the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were laid bare, at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.\n\nPsalms 102:25\nOf old thou didst lay the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands.\n\nProverbs 8:27-29\nWhen he established the heavens, I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep, when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,\n\nIsaiah 48:13\nMy hand laid out the foundation of the earth, and my right hand s
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The name of the 16th Century Danish astronomer is "Tycho Brahe".  For more information on his check out this website;\nhttp://galileo.rice.edu/sci/brahe.html\nHope this helped answer your question.
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What would my being an atheist have anything to do with the existence of Christopher Columbus?  It's documented history that he landed his ship in the Americas.  It's a common misconception that he discovered them as well.  Understanding history has no bearing on whether or not I believe in God...
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1 is not true. Most scientists are religious. \n\n2 is true if you add "some" at the beginning. Not all people believe that there is a god.
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Galileo's laws of motion were sort of precursors to Newton's laws of motion. The law of inertia was actually Galileo's. Galileo investigated forces, but did not go as far as Newton. Galileo also felt all bodies would fall at the same rate in a vacuum, regardless of mass, contrary to Aristotle. \n\nGalileo (possibly with his student Viviani) also realized that a pendulum swings with the same period, independent of the amplitude of the swing.
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This is my belief:\n\nWe are here so that God can experience God's self.\n\nGod is absolute. In this state there are no contradictions and no relativity. Everything is constant, absolute.\n\nThere are no temperature fluctuations, for instance. How would you know it's hot, if you never experienced cold? How would you know you're tall, if you never saw someone shorter than you? How would you know love if you never experienced hate or fear?\n\nGod knows what God is, but the knowing of a thing and the experiencing of it are two entirely different things. For example you know what icecream is, but experiencing the taste of it is different (and SO much better) than just intellectually knowing that it is frozen cream and sugar.\n\nGod created life as we know it so that God could experience God's self in the world of relativity through us, who are each an individuation of the whole.\n\nGod does not judge us for our actions...after this physical incarnation ends we will return to the spiritual dimension and decide if we want to stay or experience another physical incarnation. This is how we serve God.
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He believed that Science was God- Here in his own words:\n\n"A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestation of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this sense alone, I am a deeply religious man. \n\nHe was also upset that his  beliefs were misrepresented-again, in his words from an interview\n\n"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."\n\nEinstein was a scientist and physicist- Those were where his sense of magic and wonder came from, and those were his idea of anything approaching religion.\n\nHe was upset that his quote that "God doesn't play dice with the universe" was taken to mean he beleived in a Jewish or Christian God- An athiest can say, off the cuff, "God only knows why I did that" without professing a belief in God...  And even his quote about God and dice-he was talking about God in terms of physical law and science-his "religion", in that physical law is not random, but a controlled set of understandable equations that can, with enough knowledge, forecast any behaviour, including the exact speed, spin, and location of a subatomic particle- He did not accept the idea (Heisenberg's uncertainty principle) that there was no way, physically, one could know all three of these paramaters, no matter what information or equation is given.\n\n\nAnyway, Orlando-neither Oppenheimer nor Einstein were true philosophers nor religious experts- why care one way or the other about their opinions of religion, baseball, or ethnic foods?
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I believe that God created everything in the universe.  I also believe that he takes an active role in the affiars of his creations.  Furthermore I believe that he loves all of his creations.
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It's not really relevent, because people will believe what they want to believe.\n\nIF somehow someone managed to say they had scientific proof that god either existed or didn't exist, then I doubt that all that people would change their beliefs.
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Galileo's sketches of the Moon.\n\nHere are Galileo's drawings of the jagged surface of the moon.  His telescopic observations convinced him that the moon could not be a perfect, crystalline sphere.  (In the Greek scientific tradition, everything from the moon on out is made of a special, fifth element, whose natural motion is in a circle.  Everything below the moon's orbit is made of the four elements earth, fire, air, and water. \n\nhttp://unr.edu/homepage/nickles/wthonors/galileo.htm
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I believe in God but not in the traditional sense. To be honest, I've asked your very same question many times before. To understand it, I looked around me to see the natural order of life; how things worked and the cycles there are. Personally, I don't believe we were created in God's image. I don't believe that we are his only creation or his/her greatest creation, for that matter. The way I choose to view creation is simple; every thing is purpose oriented. Like a sports team, every player/ component/ creature, is an equally important part. Our lives however grand or simple, are part of an incomprehensible mass of life called creation. Creation being every thing from the stars to the microscopic germs on our hands. All things are of different masses and scales. The only thing that all things share is that, they exist. Think of it this way; solar systems are comprised of planets, galaxies comprised of solar systems, a universe comprised of galaxies. We and the world we live in are a small piece of possibly an infinite space. I don't know what our purpose is in life but all I know is, we are supposed to be alive. Every piece of all creation, is like a gear in a machine; each gear turning the other to make some thing move or react. It would be very egotistical and narrow-minded to believe that we are all that there is. Especially considering there is evidence to support the contrary. Every time you see a dog, bird, cat, cow, worm, what ever, that tells you that we're not all that there is. Heck, every time more dinosaur fossils are dug-up, that proves there was life, long before we existed. So we are just another in a long line of creatures. No more or no less special than our predecessors or our future successors. I view our lives as part of an experiment. God wants to know what we'll do; what things we will discover; what horrors we will create, how long we will last, how far we will take our selves. To what end? I don't know. But we, like every thing else, exists to simply live. We do what we want with our life. In my opinion, God does not feel good or bad about the things we do. He/she wants to know how things pan out. We're important to he/she because we are a part of him/her. God is some thing we cannot really understand. God is our creator but beyond that, that's all we know. What is the use of God, you ask? What is the use of anything? To me, to be alive is use enough. We have the ability to do great things. Our lives are what we make of them. God or the idea of God, perhaps is a constant reminder that there is always some thing beyond what we know. In a way, that guides us to the answers to our questions. Well, that's not a diffinitive answer in the least but I'll say this; if I did have the answer, I'd be a very rich man!
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• Belief in Deity\nScientology considers the belief in a God or gods as something personal and therefore offers no specific dogma. The nature of the Supreme Being is revealed personally through each individual as s/he becomes more conscious and spiritually aware. There exists a life energy or force (Theta) beyond and within all. \n\n \n• Incarnations\nThere are no particular human incarnations of God, as the universal life force (Theta) is inherent in all. All humans are immortal spiritual beings (thetans) capable of realizing a nearly godlike state through Scientology practices. \n\n \n• Origin of Universe and Life\nAll is manifestation of the universal spirit, which is all that actually exists. \n\n \n• After Death\nRebirths continue until one consciously confronts all pre-birth, current-life, and previous-life traumas and realizes one's true nature as a "thetan," immortal spirit--transcending matter, energy, space, and time. Achieving this state enables the spirit to escape the cycle of birth and death--to operate independently of the physical universe and become one with God. \n\n \n• Why Evil?\nPainful experiences and harmful acts in one's prebirth, current, and past lives become imprinted in the reactive mind and lead to irrational behavior. Departures from rational thought and untrue ideas ("aberrations") can result in wrongdoing. \n\n \n• Salvation\nSalvation is achieved through the practices and techniques of Scientology, the ultimate goal of which is to realize one's true nature as an immortal spirit, a thetan. The path to salvation, or enlightenment, includes achieving states of increasingly greater mental awareness--Pre-Clear, Clear, and ultimately Operating Thetan. An Operating Thetan is a spirit who can control matter, energy, space, time, thought, and life. Practitioners ("Auditors") are regarded as ministers and counselors who assist others to achieve self-enlightenment. Auditors help others to identify their prebirth, current, and past-life disturbances, which are obstacles to happiness and spiritual enlightenment. \n\n \n• Undeserved Suffering\nSuffering occurs as part of the spirit's entrapment here in the physical universe. Only when the individual is aware of his spiritual nature can he identify his barriers within the universe and overcome them, rising out of a lower state and into a higher state of happiness and freedom. \n\n \n• Contemporary Issues\nBased on the belief that you cannot free yourself spiritually without working to free others, Scientology has founded and supports many organizations for social betterment, particularly in the areas of drug abuse, crime, psychiatric abuse, government abuse of law, human rights, religious freedom, education, and morality. Scientology strongly favors the use of their methodology for spiritual/mental healing over the use of conventional treatment.  \n\n=)
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Galileo was put in prison for theorizing that the earth was Not the center of the universe, and that it revolved around the sun.\n\nWhile in prison he invented the telescope. How's that for prison reform?
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Galileo Galilei was an Italian physicist, astronomer, and philosopher.\n\nHe was born in February 15, 1564 and died January 8, 1642\n\nAt that time there were no such things as internets or mobile phones and the printing press (allowing mass production of articles on paper) wasn't around until another 200 or so years.\n\nGalileo's only method of communication at that times was word of mouth and communication on pieces of parchment that were delivered by messengers on horse-back.