Here above and again below we see included as the ‘heroes’ who brought about the ‘joy of knowledge’ men whose false science was condemned by the Church as formal heresy; Galileo, Kepler, Newton and Voltaire, a ‘knowledge’ that led many souls to deny our Omnipotent Creator and into naturalism and atheism.
‘The skies made of crystal have disappeared. The genius of Kepler and that of Newton were able to recognise in the sky the mechanical actions found on earth; in the flame and light of those revolving worlds you were able to discover elements to be found on our own globe; and by binding in marriage sky and earth you were able to extend the Empire of physics which was already rich in her pure and applied mathematical experiments, and in her genius, investigations and courageous acts and which had the effect of promoting nuclear and atomic physics.’ --- Pope Pius XII at the inaugural meeting of the PAS held 30th November 1941.
That of course was before atomic bσɱbs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the cities where Christianity first took hold in Japan. On 8th February 1948, Pius XII once again addressed the Academy. This time up for praise was the solar system evolutionist Pierre-Simon Laplace. The Pope writes:
‘“I do not know how I appear to the world, but to myself I appear like a child, who plays on the shore of the sea and rejoices, because he finds every now and then a smoother pebble and a less well-known shell than usual, while the great ocean lies before him unexplored.” These words of Newton today, after three centuries in the modern ferment of the physical and natural sciences, sound more than ever true. Of Simon Laplace we hear that, while he was lying ill and the friends who where around him were remembering his great discovery, he replied, smiling bitterly: “that which we know is small, but that of which we are ignorant is immense.”’
Recall Bonaparte asked Laplace - who ‘discovered,’ sorry modified, Immanuel Kant’s Nebular theory, the first ever theory as to how a heliocentric solar system evolved - where God fits in with this idea. Laplace replied: ‘Sire, I have no need for that hypothesis,’ a quip often quoted as a natural evolving solar system that does not need a Creator. Laplace’s ‘discovery,’ dust to orbiting earth, contains two heresies condemned long ago by the Fathers. The Pope then moves on to Edwin Hubble and his billions of years of an expanding universe. Yes the same Hubble who said ‘we do not know why we are born into this world, but we can try to find out what sort of world it is.’ This quote was taken from a television hour on Hubble’s space telescope programme that sends magnificent pictures of the stars back to Earth. Among them were supernovas, the gas remains of exploding stars. These were described as looking back in time at stars in their process of evolution rather than their destruction after the Fall. Pope Pius XII then tries to make Genesis fit into the ‘scientific’ ages, stating radioactive dating shows the Earth and meteorites are five billions of years old, another pack of assumptions we examined earlier in Chapter 32.
"Although these figures are astonishing, nevertheless, even the simplest believer would not take them as unheard of and differing from those derived from the first words of Genesis, ‘In the beginning …’, which signify the beginning of things in time. These words take on a concrete and almost mathematical expression, and new comfort is given to those who share with the Apostle an esteem for Scripture, divinely inspired, which is always useful to teach, to prove, to correct, to educate..."
"How different and reflecting great vision is the language of a modern top grade scientist, Sir Edmund Whittaker, a Pontifical Academician, when he speaks of his researches concerning the age of the world…“We may perhaps without impropriety refer to it as the Creation. It supplies a concordant background to the view of the world which is suggested by the geological evidence, that every organism ever existent on the earth has had a beginning in time. If this result should be confirmed by later researches, it may well come to be regarded as the most momentous discovery of the age; for it represents a fundamental change in the scientific conception of the universe, such as was effected four centuries ago by Copernicus”’--Pius XIII
What we witness in such addresses by popes to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences is the victory of Galileo’s reformation ‘even over the elect.’ Yes, the victory of this Pythagorean ‘scientific’ fɾαυd over the intellectual world was so complete that had popes even considered a geocentric creation they would have been laughed out of their ‘scientific’ Academy. What churchman, after praising the science of Galileo, Kepler, Newton and Laplace would put faith before science then or now, and risk the inevitable mockery from academics and the mєdια publicity that would result from it? Just picture it; martyrdom would have been a more preferable choice than such derision and embarrassment; and that is why churchmen ignored the fact that a geocentric universe was in fact compliant with the relativity they should all have been aware of, a metaphysics they will continue to ignore for the preferred ‘scientific’ view, no matter what. The hold on the mind of man, with their intellectual pride, is akin to a magic spell as we pointed out many chapters ago. Had churchmen reconsidered the 1820 U-turn in 1905, when science admitted geocentrism was never falsified, the internal damage might have been contained somewhat, for it could be shown and argued that the popes of the U-turn were supplied with spurious information and were practically coerced into dropping the ban on books on heliocentrism while granting imprimaturs to others. More importantly though, no pope ever issued any official abrogation, nor showed any personal criticism of Pope Paul V’s 1616 decree up to then. Given there is Christian faith in so many other scientifically impossible and non-provable things, things like miracles, a return to the interpretation of a stable Earth in Scripture would simply have been one more subject of Catholic belief based on Revelation.
‘In an article in L’Osservatore Romano last November, entitled Thank you, Galileo, Father José Funes [a Jesuit of course], Director of the Specola Vaticana, the Vatican observatory, remarked: “There would have been no Galileo without the Catholic Church, and perhaps there would have been no Specola Vaticana [Vatican Observatory] without Galileo.”... All the Popes have always considered Galileo a genius: here outside there is a plaque that was set up by Pope Pius XII, which states that Galileo was a leading spirit of the Academy.’ ---- 30 days website.
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