Galileo on Radio Live for Two Hours Today!

[Galileo Galilei]

Galileo on Radio Live for Two Hours Today!



Galileo Junior, aka, Rolf Lindgren will be on the air today (WED, Feb 18) for two hours today talking about Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)



The program will air from 5 P.M. to 7 P.M. central time.



You can listen to the show live, http://www.revereradio.net/

You can call with questions via (877) 738-3730 the 2nd hour.

The show will be archived at http://radiofetzer.blogspot.com/



Topics include:



Galileo's achievements

Galileo in the news

Galileo trivia

Myths about Galileo regarding the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Plato, and the continuity argument of science.

Galileo's Trial Topics

not fair

not fair according to rules of the time

book was licensed

1616 decree not a violation of heresy

Council of Trent rules not violated

planted document either fake or not admissible nor relevant evidence

Pope's anger not a real argument

fictional dialog

extra-judicial torture threatened


You can listen to the show live, http://www.revereradio.net/

You can call with questions via (877) 738-3730 the 2nd hour.

The show will be archived at http://radiofetzer.blogspot.com/

UPDATE!

Podcast now Posted!

Rolf Lindgren on Gallileo

http://radiofetzer.blogspot.com/2009/02/rolf-lindgren-on-gallileo.html

[Galileo Galilei]

Vatican Holds Mass in Honor of Galileo Galilei's Birthday!

Cardinal Says Galileo Studied Science With Faith

Secretary of State Sends Message to Mass

VATICAN CITY, FEB. 17, 2009 (Zenit.org).-

Benedict XVI's secretary of state sent a message to an unprecedented Mass held in honor of Galileo, marking the scientist's 445th birthday.

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone spoke of the harmony between faith and science in the message, sent for the solemn Mass celebrated Sunday in the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels and Martyrs in Rome.

The Eucharistic celebration was presided over by Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, and organized by the World Federation of Scientists, chaired by physicist Antonino Zichichi.

The secretary of state, citing the Pope's epiphany homily from Jan. 6, stated that in Christianity there is a particular cosmological concept, which in our time "offers interesting signs of a new springtime" of scientists, able to value faith and reason as having "mutual fruitfulness."

The cardinal's message described Galileo Galilei as a model, since he "knew how to read and study science through the eyes of faith."

Cardinal Bertone assured the Mass participants of the "Pontiff's spiritual closeness," and greeted the scientists, in particular, the representatives of the Sciences Academy of China.

In his homily, Archbishop Ravasi explained how "Galilei distinguished the two reasons, the truth of science and the truths useful for salvation, which are conveyed by the voice of the Spirit."

At the end of Mass, Zichichi announced that in that basilica a statue will be erected to honor the great scientist.

http://www.zenit.org/article-25121?l=english

[Galileo Galilei]

UPDATE!

Podcast now Posted!

Rolf Lindgren on Gallileo

http://radiofetzer.blogspot.com/2009/02/rolf-lindgren-on-gallileo.html