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not been a hallmark among Catholics
through much of the 20th century.Asked
about the pope’s statement, Peter Stravinskas,
editor of the 1991 Catholic Encyclopedia,
said: ‘It’s essentially whatAugustine
was writing.
He tells us that we should not
interpret Genesis literally, and that it is
poetic and theological language’” (Time,
international edition,Nov.
4, 1996, p. 59).
The Catholic theologianAugustine lived
354-430.The Encyclopaedia Britannica
describes him as “the dominant personality
of the Western Church of his time, generally
recognized as the greatest thinker of Christian
antiquity.”
It adds, “He fused the religion
of the NewTestament with the
Platonic tradition of Greek philosophy”
(15th edition, 1975,MicropaediaVol. 1,
“Augustine of Hippo, Saint,” pp.
649-650).
Little did Augustine realize he was
doing his followers a grave disservice by
viewing parts of the Bible as allegorical
while simultaneously incorporating into
his teaching the views of the Greek
philosophers.
For the next 1,300 years,
covering roughly the medieval age, the
view of those pagan philosophers became
the standard for the Roman church’s
explanation of the universe.
Furthermore, ecclesiastical leaders
adopted the earth-centered view of the universe
held by Ptolemy, an Egyptian-born
astronomer of the second century.
“It was
. . .
from the work of previous [Greek]
astronomers,” says the Encyclopaedia Britannica,
“that Ptolemy evolved his detailed
description of an Earth-centered (geocentric)
universe, a revolutionary but erroneous
idea that governed astronomical
thinking for over 1,300 years . . .
“In essence, it is a synthesis of the
results obtained by Greek astronomy . . .
On the motions of the Sun,Moon, and
planets, Ptolemy again extended the observations
and conclusions of Hipparchus—
this time to formulate his geocentric
theory, which is popularly known as the
Ptolemaic system” (Britannica, 15th
edition, 1975,MacropaediaVol. 15,
“Ptolemy,” p. 179).
The Bible and the universe
Thus it was not the biblical perspective
but the Greek view of the cosmos—in
which everything revolved around a stationary
earth—that was to guide man’s concept
of the universe for many centuries.The
Roman Catholic Church made the mistake
of tying its concept of the universe to that of
earlier pagan philosophers and astronomers,
then enforced that erroneous view.
Although the Greeks thought Atlas held
up first the heavens and later the earth, and
the Hindus believed the earth rested atop
four gigantic elephants, the Bible has long
revealed the true explanation.We read in
Job 26:7 an astonishingly modern scientific
concept, that God “hangs the earth on
nothing.”
Science has demonstrated that
this “nothing” is the invisible force of
gravity that holds the planet in its orbit.
Centuries passed before Nicolas
Copernicus calculated that the earth was
not the center of the universe.
However,
he was cautious about challenging the
Roman church on this belief.
More than
a century would elapse before someone
would be bold enough and possessed
sufficient evidence to clash with the
established religious authorities.
In the 1690s, after observing through
a telescope the moons orbiting Jupiter, Italian
astronomer Galileo Galilei beheld clear
evidence that the earth revolved around the
sun and not vice versa.
Catholic authorities
considered the idea heretical, and Galileo
was threatened with death if he did not
recant.
Finally he did, although legend has
it that, as he left the presence of the pope,
he muttered under his breath: “But it [the
earth] still moves.”
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