Deciding the World Does Not Revolve Around Galileo. In the confrontation between Galileo and the Catholic Church, Wade Rowland maintains that the church's position is more defensible. By Michael Massing. By then, however, the mood in the church had hardened. In the throes of the Counter-Reformation, it had little tolerance for such bold assertions. In conventional accounts it was Galileo's insistence on the Copernican worldview that riled the church. Mr. Rowland demurs. For him it was Galileo's insistence "that there is a single and unique explanation to natural phenomena," based on observation and reason, that made all other explanations, including those based on biblical revelation, useless.
This in Mr. Rowland's view was Galileo's mistake. Mr. Rowland puckishly argues that science is no more reliable than religion in describing the universe. Scientific observations, while commonly thought to be based on empirical reality, he writes, are actually "filtered through layers of subjective impression"; scientific "facts" about nature are not "pre-existing truths" but "human constructs."
[New York Times: Books]
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