SCIENCE AND RELIGION(Part 1)
In the history of western civilization, there has been two classical disputes between science and religion. The first was on cosmology; motion of heavenly bodies. The second was on subject of blood circulation. The first was resolved in AD 1543, the second 1925.
Science won the contest in two disputes but the debates were long and protracted. The issue fought with great acrimony and its echoes has not yet died down.
The christian religion upheld the theories of the sun, moon and stars. Propounded in AD 140 by Claudius Ptolemy of Alexandria which put the earth at the center of the universe. When Nicholas Copernicus worked out a new system and put the sun and not the earth. The wrath of the church descended upon his head. Even Martin Luther called him a fool. To save his neck, Copernicus expressed his apologies and kept the manuscript in a secret place to be published long after he died in 1543. His publication sealed off the fate of Ptolemy's cosmology and the church lost to science in contest number one. AD 1543 is a year to remember.
The second crisis had been brewing between science and religion since 1628 when Dr William Harvey postulated that blood circulation is through the pumping of the heart. This denied the existence of Vitus-spiritus(life force) postulated by Aristotle and adopted by Christianity. Therefore science won in the second contest and atheism rose to heights.
Science won the contest in two disputes but the debates were long and protracted. The issue fought with great acrimony and its echoes has not yet died down.
The christian religion upheld the theories of the sun, moon and stars. Propounded in AD 140 by Claudius Ptolemy of Alexandria which put the earth at the center of the universe. When Nicholas Copernicus worked out a new system and put the sun and not the earth. The wrath of the church descended upon his head. Even Martin Luther called him a fool. To save his neck, Copernicus expressed his apologies and kept the manuscript in a secret place to be published long after he died in 1543. His publication sealed off the fate of Ptolemy's cosmology and the church lost to science in contest number one. AD 1543 is a year to remember.
The second crisis had been brewing between science and religion since 1628 when Dr William Harvey postulated that blood circulation is through the pumping of the heart. This denied the existence of Vitus-spiritus(life force) postulated by Aristotle and adopted by Christianity. Therefore science won in the second contest and atheism rose to heights.
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