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What do you think Einstein meant? Do you agree with him?

What do you think Einstein meant? Do you agree with him?. Galileo. Psalm 104: 5 God set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved. In Galileo’s time the Catholic Church in Italy had a lot of control over the country and its laws.

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What do you think Einstein meant? Do you agree with him?

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  1. What do you think Einstein meant? Do you agree with him?

  2. Galileo Psalm 104: 5 God set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved. In Galileo’s time the Catholic Church in Italy had a lot of control over the country and its laws. Galileo was put under house arrest for going against the church, when he said that his scientific research caused him to believe that the earth goes around the sun, not the other way around. He was forced to stand before the church and say that he was wrong, and that he was sorry for going against the Bible In 1993 the Catholic Church recognised that Galileo had actually been right. 1 Chronicles 16:30  Tremble before him, all the earth! The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved

  3. What should be taught in schools? The Butler Act, Tennessee, 1925 "That it shall be unlawful for any teacher in any of the Universities.. and all other public schools of the State which are supported in whole or in part by the public school funds of the State, to teach any theory that denies the Story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals."

  4. Scopes vs State of Tennessee Trial, 1925 Scopes’ Defence The Prosecution Bryan represented the World Christian Fundamentals Association at the Trial He took to the stand as an expert to defend the Bible. John Scopes was a biology teacher from the small town of Dayton, Tennessee who was charged in 1925 for teaching the children at his school the theory of evolution. His lawyer Darrow was an atheist. Clarence Darrow William Bryan

  5. What do you think these cartoons from newspapers in areas of the Bible Belt wanted to make readers think about the Scopes Trial? ‘We concede a few types to the Evolutionists’ Memphis Commercial Appeal, June 21, 1925  Atlanta Constitution, July 5, 1925

  6. The Prosecution “Christians...oppose the teaching of [evolution] that encourages godlessness among the students....Evolution is not true... There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.................. Evolution is also creating doubt in heaven at the end of life...evolution disputes the truth of the Bible account of man’s creation and shakes faith in the Bible as the Word of God.” Evolution is not the truth; it is merely a hypothesis....it is millions of guesses strung together The Defence The defence pleaded for “freedom of education” and not education controlled by people with one particular religious belief. They said that there was no reason why the teaching of evolution should cause someone to lose faith in God. The defence argued that not everything in the Bible is meant literally. The Bible is not a book of facts but a book of meaning , it tells people how to live their lives and love God not the detail of natures laws. The defence said that humans could still come from God, but through the means of evolution. Evolution could be seen as God’s plan. How did the defence try to win over Christian members of the jury? Do you think that the prosecution understood the theory of evolution?

  7. Compatible? Conflict? Co-exist? "Science and religion are two windows that people look through, trying to understand the big universe outside, trying to understand why we are here.  The two windows give different views, but both look out at the same universe.  Both views are one-sided, neither is complete.  Both leave out essential features of the real world.  And both are worthy of respect."                               Physicist Freeman Dyson “Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.” Martin Luther King “The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go” Galileo “Science without religion is lame. Religion without Science is blind” Einstein “Clearly, then, both religion and science are founded on faith — namely, on belief in the existence of something outside the universe, like an unexplained God or an unexplained set of physical laws.” Paul Davies - Taking Science on Faith “One might as well say that conflict arises between men and women only when they stray onto each other’s territories and stir up trouble. Science produces discoveries that challenge long-held beliefs (not only religious ones) based on revelation rather than evidence, and the religious must decide whether to battle or accommodate secular knowledge if it contradicts their teachings.” Author Susan Jacoby

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