the Bible which they had failed to understand properly, and which were ill suited to their purposes." He went on to say that his attackers are spreading rumors about his theories being unholy when he states, "they have endeavored to spread their opinion that such propositions in general are contrary to the Bible and are consequently damnable and heretical." When he wrote, "they would have us together abandon reason in the evidence of our senses in favor of some Biblical passage, but under the surface meaning of its words a different sense" , he was saying that those who speak out against him are saying that we should give up reason and scientific evidence and believe their particular interpretation of Scripture even though it may not be God meant. Galileo makes the argument that even "though the Holy Bible never speak untruth... it is very abstruse, and may say thanks which are quite different from what its bare words signify." He went on further to write that an order for the Bible to hold truth for each and every man it must be interpreted and therefore the words may have a different meaning when read by different people in different circumstances. Galileo is basically saying in this letter that those who oppose him use verses from the Bible out of context and that would be better for them to use reason in trying to understand God's grand plan for nature, and that God had endowed us with senses, reason and intellect and to ignore these would be doing the creator an injustice. Englishman Sir Francis Bacon and Frenchman Rene Descartes were both proponents of a new scientific method of explaining God's universe. Descartes was a mathematical genius, which did not adhere to the traditional scientific principles of Aristotle. He believed that it was necessary to doubt existing truths, until using the deductive reasoning and a systematic mathematical process could prove them. Bacon, too, had no great love for the old traditional metho...
