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Grand Paradigms Basic western model, 500 BC – 1543 AD Humans are the centre of the Universe Humans were placed here by God/Gods Human purpose is the worship of God/Gods Religion is the path of truth

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Grand Paradigms. Basic western model, 500 BC – 1543 AD Humans are the centre of the Universe Humans were placed here by God/Gods Human purpose is the worship of God/Gods Religion is the path of truth. God Humans Animals Anything else. Model of the universe. Which God ?. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Grand Paradigms

Basic western model, 500 BC – 1543 AD Humans are the centre of the Universe Humans were placed here by God/Gods Human purpose is the worship of

God/Gods Religion is the path of truth

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Model of the universe

GodHumansAnimals

Anything else

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Which God ?

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Nicolaus Copernicus

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Geocentric model, Ptolemy

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1543…

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Paradigm shift

A huge change in thinking… Catholic Church violently opposed this

shift Copernicus, Galileo & Kepler persecuted In 1633 Galileo was convicted of grave

suspicion of heresy for "following the position of Copernicus, which is contrary to the true sense and authority of Holy Scripture"

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The Index

In 1758 the general prohibition against works advocating heliocentrism was removed from the ndex of rohibitedbooks, although the specific ban on uncensored versions of the Dialogue and Copernicus's De Revolutionibus remained.

All traces of official opposition to heliocentrism by the Church disappeared in 1835 when these works were finally dropped from the Index.

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« the self-doubt of the modern age » 15 February 1990, in a

speech delivered at the apienzaniversityof Rome, ardinal Ratzinger cited some current views on the Galileo affair as forming what he called "a symptomatic case that permits us to see how deep the self-doubt of the modern age, of science and technology goes today."

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« The error of the theologians of the time, when they maintained the centrality of the Earth, was to think that our understanding of the physical world's structure was, in some way, imposed by the literal sense of Sacred Scripture.... »

On 31 October 1992, ope John Paul II expressed regret for how the Galileo affair was handled, and officially conceded that the Earth was not stationary, as the result of a study conducted by the ontifical Council for Culture

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Enlightenment Paradigm

Man is rational & superior to all things

Reason is the gift of God Man’s purpose is to investigate the

universe Science is the source of truth

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New Celestial pyramid

God

Mind

Design

Order

Chaos

Nothing

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More Paradigms

Atheism develops post 1543 Darwin’s paradigm, evolution We are not created by God Freud showed we are not in control of our

behaviour…sex…sub-conscious Are we rational, self controlled ? Einstein…space & time not fixed Heisenburg, particles positions can never be

known

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Modern Paradigm…

Humans are random evolutionary accidents Humans are one of billions of species Probably other planets with life There is no God There is no purpose to life There is no path to truth « What is the point of life ? »

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Why are we here ?How did we get here ?What is the point of life ?