
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Galilei , Galileo (1615), The Essential Galileo, Hackett Pub Co, Retrieved on 2011-04-19Source Material [www.fordham.edu]
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19 APR 2011
Galileo Defends Nature as Truth
It is necessary for the Bible, in order to be accommodated to the understanding of every man, to speak many things which appear to differ from the absolute truth so far as the bare meaning of the words is concerned. But Nature, on the other hand, is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, or cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and methods of operation are understandable to men. For that reason it appears that nothing physical which senseexperience s...Explaining why the Bible must be contradictory at times, he reveres nature as the word of God.