FREE ESSAY ON GALILEO

GALILEO

After reading this letter I feel that Galileo had a very opinionated outlook on life and
was heavily involved in a struggle for freedom of inquiry. Galileo was a person who had
many strong beliefs and would not let people or a document have a say in what he
believes.
I think that according to Galileo an individual gains knowledge of nature threw
observation. Galileo believed no one really went out into the world as he did and used
the senses that God gave us when we where created, to observe the physical world. He was
a very persistent individual and was always looking further into what he observed our
read. Many people went along with how he gained knowledge of nature but the few who did
not tried to find other ways to damage his beliefs and ideas. 
Galileo's objections to using the bible where very clear. He objected to using the bible
as a source of knowledge of physical things because it would not always speak the truth
on the surface. He feels that the truth and meaning lie underneath what is actually
written down on the page. He believes we must use our senses God gave us to find the
truth in the bible. He thinks the bible leads us to the abandonment of reason and our
senses. 
Galileo does not argue that the bible is untrue, he strongly believes in the bible. He
does feel that the bible can not be taken as the absolute truth though. He mentions that
during the passage the bible speaks untrue but then if looked further into the passage he
states that you will find the truth. Galileo wants us to look further into the bible and
not just what is written on the page. He thinks we shall look further by using the
knowledge and senses God gave us when we where created. 
Science contradicts the bible in many ways according to Galileo because scientists are
looking further into and past what the bible says. So therefore scientists have different
meanings of what the bible says. Scientists are more complex than the bible and it words.
He explains this by saying that in the bible you will find words that say the sun moves
and the earth stands still. If looked further into you will find that science contradicts
this because as we no the earth moves around the sun. I think the bible is saying that
the world is the center of the universe therefor everything revolves around what the
earth does as a place. 
I think Galileo does believe in God. Galileo believes that God has good advice when
looked further into and interpreted differently then what the bible says. Most people
believe in God and what he states in the bible but Galileo believes God gave us our
senses to observe the bible and our surrounding into further details.
Galileo uses God to justify knowledge by saying that we gain our knowledge through the
senses God gave us to observe the physical world. God required we use these senses to
look deeper into what we observe therefor we would gain knowledge of nature and our
surroundings