From a New York Times piece on the Galileo Museum in Florence, Italy (formerly Florence’s history of science museum, which contains – and the Missus and I can attest to this – “a veritable curiosity cabinet of beautifully wrought scientific instruments”):
[In 1992 Pope John Paul] called the Galileo case one in which “a tragic, reciprocal incomprehension was interpreted as the reflection of a fundamental opposition between science and faith.”
Man, I took eight years of Greek and Latin and I still can’t figure out that sentence.
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Shirley, you’re being facetious. Seems fairly clear (if a bit densely packed) to me.
It seems to me that PJP2 was saying that Galileo and the Church didn’t understand each other, but that does not necessarily mean that faith and science are incompatible.
Not being an expert in the Catholic faith, I am not a reliable judge of the truth of this statement. And it would seem presumptuous of the Pope to speak for other faiths (though it appears to me that presumptuousness and Pope-ness sometimes coincide).
Shirley, you were looking at it in the clear light of day, Steve. I read it in the wee small hours of the morning.
Context is everything, no?