Bible museum 2

(cont'd from yesterday's post)

"Scripture and Science" opened as a new exhibit last week in the Museum of the Bible. Lots of artifacts are included. 

Nicolaus Copernicus published On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres in the year 1543, containing his model of the universe which put the sun rather than the earth in the center of it. A very old copy from 1566 is being displayed. It's a special copy - owned by Galileo himself.

Some of the great issues of today's world are addressed in the exhibit, one of them being the assumption that science and religion are always in conflict. The exhibit brings evidence to the contrary. 

Early religious figures in the "scientific revolution" (1543 to 1687) brought their principles into the work of studying the universe. They believed that the Creator instilled his own orderliness into the material world, so the universe can truly be studied and understood by humans who were created with His own rationality.

Much more from the exhibit can be found here.