Galileo Reconsidered:
Science, Faith, and Reason
A Conversation with Benjamin Doolittle
12.00–1.30pm | Friday, September 25
Elm Library, 31 Whitney Avenue
In 1610, Galileo Galilei championed the heliocentric model of the universe, challenging the prevailing geocentric model, and the resulting trial led to a life sentence of house-arrest. The Galileo controversy has become a proxy for larger debates about the relationship between faith and reason, religion and science. What really happened in the Galileo saga? What can his story teach us about the relationship between science and faith?
Benjamin Doolittle is a Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at the Yale Medical School and a Professor of Religion and Health at the Yale Divinity School.
This event is open to all members of the Yale community. Lunch will be served.
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If it can be demonstrated by sure observation that it is the earth and not the sun that revolves, the efforts and arguments of all mankind put together will not hinder our planet from revolving, nor hinder themselves from revolving along with her.
—Blaise Pascal, Provincial Letters