Religion and Science

My personal views set aside, Galileo seems to find that there is a combination of religion and science. It frustrates him more than ever when people quote Scripture as to support scientific ideas, because no one is qualified enough to really interpret the Bible correctly. It is purposefully left open-ended. The Bible “was designed to persuade men of those articles and propositions which,…could not be made credible by science” (183). The Bible and science are two separate things, though religion and science, he feels, are one in the same. In a sense, God is nature because God is everything and everywhere, so nature would be included. The Christian religion does not have scientific flaws in it because God is without imperfection. The Bible, on the other hand, does not talk about science. It speaks only of “essential matters more directly [relating]… to their salvation and to the benefit of the holy Church” (185). Therefore the Bible cannot be held as a scientific source.