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problems, we ought not begin from the authority of Scriptural passages but from sense experience and
necessary demonstrations: in a word, natural philosophy. Aristotle had not observed enough, nor as freely as
Church authorities believed and so Galileo and the rest of his fellow revolutionaries went beyond The
Philosopher they had done a much better job of using their senses. By arguing that man must look beyond
the literal meaning of the Scriptures, Galileo unwisely put himself in disagreement with Council of Trent. In
1546, the Council prohibited "any attempt to twist the sense of Holy Scripture against the meaning which has
been and is being held by our Holy Mother Church." The Council, of course, was clearly reacting to the
onslaught of the Lutheran Reformation. The medieval synthesis had been assaulted on several fronts but in
one last ditch effort, Rome built its last defense Galileo was the fall guy!
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