"The results of [Galileo's experiments] shocked the sensibilities of contemporary scholars. Galileo's experimental methods were entirely foreign to scientists of his day and were regarded by most of his colleagues as undesirable if not dangerous innovations. Accordingly, the results derived in this fashion were also suspect.Today it's Behe's publications that shock the sensibilities of public education. The Darwinian approach to understanding how the universe ticks is on the wane. Wonder what Galileo would think of those who assert that man is the culmination of wholly natural processes lacking either intelligence or design."These studies which upset Aristotelian physicists, as well as Galileo's habit of getting into trouble with persons who did not agree with him, made Galileo far from popular with the faculty at Pisa. Either on this account or on account of his father's death in 1591, Galileo resigned his teaching post at the University several months before it was due to expire and returned to his mother's home in Florence."
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"Galileo . . . was prone to sharply criticize unsubstantiated statements and theories unsupported by observation."
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Carl J. Wenning, Coordinator
Physics Teacher Education Program
Illinois State University
By "scholar" one presumes, we are referring to the prelates of the inquisition, and their priestly fellow travelers. Galileo's book was immensely popular with intelligent laypeople of the rennaissance, and practicing scientists, such as there were of them. It is a little hard to understand how a book with previously almost unheard of circulation numbers should have been bought up by people repulsed by it.
Huh, how heineous. I guess that would make him, what? A scientist?
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Carl J. Wenning, Coordinator
Physics Teacher Education Program
Illinois State University
Oh, well, there's an authoratative source.
Today it's Behe's publications that shock the sensibilities of public education. The Darwinian approach to understanding how the universe ticks is on the wane.
Except, of course, amongst a small minority of the population called scientists.
Wonder what Galileo would think of those who assert that man is the culmination of wholly natural processes lacking either intelligence or design.
I wonder, apropos to the quote above, what Galileo would think of people who cling to marginal pseudo-scientific theories like ID "unsupported by observation" in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary that convinces hundreds of thousands of working scientists totally immersed in the philosophy of intensely critical observation.