The New Science Versus the Old Faith During the 18th century, the age of Enlightenment, traditional thought patterns about the world were beginning to be challenged by scientific discoveries. Both Galileo and Descartes believed that one could believe in the teaching of the Bible and simultaneously accept the findings and conclusions of modern science. Galileo is credited for saying, "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, …showed first 75 words of 1130 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1130 total…Queen Christina was unsuccessful in resolving the tension between church and science. He wrote is an attempt to open people's minds to scientific discoveries, make them examine the true meaning of scripture and then correctly interpret it. But too many people who were unwilling to use the sense, reason, and intellect that God gave them. Galileo ended up being put under house arrest for the remainder of his life, in a villa outside Florence, Italy.