Re: [asa] Creationism Conference (The Queen of Sciences)

Yes -- magesterial and foundational. And yet -- does Galileo really capture
what the scholastics meant by theology as Queen? And isn't Galileo's
reliance on sense experience not exactly as consonant with Patristic
epistemology as he suggests? In a postmodern / critical realist framework,
can we give sense experience quite the pride of place Galileo affords it?

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Ted Davis <TDavis@messiah.edu> wrote:

> Once again, it's time to go read Galileo's "letter to Christina." All of
> your questions about the "queen," what her function is (what it was claimed
> to be by Galileo's opponents and what it legitimately is, according to
> Galileo), and how it is altered by the "partnership" or "two books" model,
> will be answered. This is very old territory--nothing new under the sun.
>
> Galileo's letter is the one text that I require students to read in most of
> my courses. There are reasons for this: people keep repeating the past,
> often thoughtlessly.
>
> Ted
>

-- 
David W. Opderbeck
Associate Professor of Law
Seton Hall University Law School
Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology
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