The current Catholic ideoology

Astronomers are meant to feel their way through facts and information to create visual narratives in the imagination which ultimately can be projected into graphics and time lapse footage for others to enjoy.

The current Catholic position couldn't be more awful or more wrongheaded as there are no two realms of knowledge, there is only the spirit which lights up information and reasoning to delight the mind and draw a closer connection between the individual and Universal -


"In fact, the Bible does not concern itself with the details of the physical world, the understanding of which is the competence of human experience and reasoning. There exist two realms of knowledge, one which has its source in Revelation and one which reason can discover by its own power. To the latter belong especially the experimental sciences and philosophy. The distinction between the two realms of knowledge ought not to be understood as opposition" Catholic statement on Galileo affair

The mind cannot discover by its own power (whatever that is supposed to mean) but it does catch glimpses of insights and better ways to do things, often in a flash common to all innovators and the creative minded. For those who exist at the frontier of this creative juncture it can be an exhilarating experience for the inspiring and those who can be inspired.


In direct conflict to the words of Christ, the Church has taken a position which creates a further divide between Christians and their physical surroundings -

"The Spirit alone gives Life. Human effort accomplishes nothing. And the very words I have spoken to you are spirit and life." Jesus

In all things astronomical it is not a matter of convincing or convictions, unless an insight brings out a sense of satisfaction and enjoyment in a person then it isn't astronomy.

On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 1:25:51 AM UTC-6, oriel36 wrote:

In all things astronomical it is not a matter of convincing or convictions,
unless an insight brings out a sense of satisfaction and enjoyment in a person
then it isn't astronomy.

It almost sounds like you're saying that it's more important that an astronomical
theory makes people feel good than that it corresponds to reality.

Trying to find out how Nature _really_ works, testing our suppositions by
experiment, is what has permitted us to learn enough that is true and reliable
to advance engineering and invention, so as to achieve great progress in
medicine and in many forms of technology.

The Church learned from its mistakes in the case of Copernicus and Galileo. It
seeks to avoid any repetitions of that on a later level, accepting the
heliocentric theory, but rejecting something else later. So they avoid becoming
Creationists.

John Savard