In this episode of Philosophers, Explained, Dr. Hicks discusses the open letter Galileo wrote arguing that true science and true religion are in fact compatible.
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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., the University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian University in Poland.
Most fundamentalists and atheists take the Bible literally. The fundamentalists do so that they may follow it without actually understanding, and the atheists do so that they may ridicule it without understanding.