of the divine omnipotence, and a consciousness of the limitations of the human mind.” (Knoebel 4). He strongly suggested that having a scientific position had of no relevance to the church. To quote the bible “And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher?” (New International Version, Josh. 10:13) In a biblical context, it states that the sun stood still as well as the moon was motionless. We know that this isn’t true for a fact, but many people long ago assumed that the Aristotelian and Church teachings were correct and didn’t want to believe otherwise. Salviati is representing Galileo in the text as the expert in science. Salviati talks about seeing the stars of the Big Dipper from his telescope. He exclaims how with the use of observation we can make new discoveries. “And if in the course of these operations any such variations shall happen to become known, how great an achievement will be made in astronomy!”(Knoebel 6) When humans look beyond what knowledge is given to them there are able to find more.
Francis Bacon who lived from 1561 to 1626 was an English Philosopher (Knoebel 10). He discarded many of the views from the Middle Ages and wanted people to give a reason for natural occurrences. Bacon believed that humans can be knowledgeable on many aspects of life only through reasoning, but beyond that, if humans were to believe in stories that have no logical explanation they are boxed in. Bacon deeply expressed that humans can understand so much more in nature when they look at how and what those occurrences came to be. The world is a huge place and so when we explain how certain events came to be, it is easier to c...