Philosophers, Explained covers major philosophers and texts, especially the great classics. In each episode, Professor Hicks discusses an important work, doing a close reading that lasts 40 minutes to an hour.

In this episode, Dr. Hicks does a close reading of this letter Galileo wrote to the Grand Duchess Christina to argue that science and Scripture are in fact compatible.

Timestamps:

00:38 The text
01:04 Is religion compatible with science?
04:39 The Bible is abstruse
08:04 The intended audience of the Bible
13:00 Science should be separate from the Bible
14:30 God wrote two books
17:24 Not undermining the Bible
19:38 Reason vs. faith
22:54 The sparseness of science in the Bible
23:55 The Bible is not about scientific inquiry
24:35 Copernican Position



Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian University in Poland.

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