RickJB touched on this issue, but I'll go a little further. Or rather, in a different direction.
But conclusions reached in the Bible should be used in science. Otherwise, if the good book is wrong, then God himself did not know the universe He allegedly created
could it be, that if God was the author, he just left some stuff out? You know, like it's not really that important to know how gravity works or the correct physics compared with getting into heaven.
Wouldn't, and doesn't, all that science mumbo-jumbo just confuse matters in the "good book"?
Is the book about salvation or science? It's damn good if you're using it as a life guide. Piss poor as a science guide.
Does this, then, not lead to the conclusion that perhaps science is not the focus of the bible?
Do you use a bird-book for looking up what type of lizard you're looking at?
As to the whole gallileo deal:
you do realize he was being persecuted by the Inquisition, right? His comment, about not abandoning reason, was in response to the Inquisition demanding that he do just that, and accept at face-value what is in the bible as true.
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