In 1633, the Roman Inquisition forced Galileo Galilei to recant his support for the Copernican heliocentric model — a trial that has been mythologized into a simple story of science versus religion when the actual conflict was more complicated and more interesting.
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science
5 articles across all sections
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The Trial of Galileo -
The God Delusion The most commercially successful atheist argument of the 21st century — polemical, exhilarating, and often philosophically underdeveloped.
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Enlightenment Now A comprehensive empirical defense of the Enlightenment project and its achievements — ambitious, data-driven, and more contested than it lets on.
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark Sagan's definitive argument for scientific thinking as the best tool humanity has against the dark.
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What the Replication Crisis Actually Tells Us About How Science Works The failure of a large number of published findings to replicate is not a scandal. It is science functioning as designed — just more visibly than usual.