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[....] Saint Augustine in the fourth century and Saint Aquinas in the thirteenth century both declared that the Bible supported whichever astronomical hypothesis was verified in nature as true. It is an ancient Catholic principle that, since God is the author of all truth, the truths of science and the truths of revelation cannot contradict one another. Galileo was fond of quoting Cardinal Baronius who died in 1607, “The Bible teaches us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go.”

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