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stevenposner · **on:** Jul 14, 2018

Galileo expressed his view on the relationship between science and religion by saying that

a. science gives us true knowledge, while the Bible only gives us fanciful tales.
b. the Bible teaches us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go.
c. when our theology and our science conflict, we must reject our scientific theories.
d. the question of their relationship was of no concern to him.

Question 2

The one feature that made Copernicuss theory superior to the traditional view was that

a. it reduced the number of epicycles in the solar system.
b. his contemporaries believed it was more consistent with the Bible.
c. it predicted events that could not be predicted on the old theory.
d. it explained facts that the old theory could not explain.