NSCI 110 - Week 4 - Copernican Cosmology Quiz
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Week 4 Copernican Cosmology Quiz
Question 1
10
/ 10 pts
For Protestants, the main point of contention was its apparent violence against the “plain sense” meaning of Scripture.
Correct!
True
False
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Question 2
10
/ 10 pts
The perfect spherical heavens of which the Earth was at the center found its demise through which of the following events?
Two supernova appearing in a timeframe of 30 years, indicating the heavens
weren’t fixed
Moons orbiting around Jupiter, proving not everything revolves around the Earth
The discovery of spots of the sun, revealing that it was not ‘perfect’
Valleys and mountains on the moon and other planets, making them to be imperfect spheres
Correct!
All of the above
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Question 3
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/ 10 pts
When first pondering the idea that the earth could be moving, how did Copernicus describe his own idea?
Brilliant
Awesome
Correct!
Absurd
Magnificent
Stupendous
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Question 4
10
/ 10 pts
What was one of the frustrations that Copernicus had with Ptolemy’s Cosmology?
Ptolemy did not use the Bible as the foundation for understanding the cosmos
Correct!
The complexity of the epicycles
Ptolemy was not a Christian and thus was definitely wrong about his cosmology
His models did not even try to understand what we saw in the heavens
The cosmology did not easily fit into the Bible
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Question 5
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/ 10 pts
Despite lots of converging lines of evidence, the final verdict on Galileo’s 1616 tribunal was in defense of the Aristotelian model (despite being incorrect). What reasons were given to support the verdict?
Galileo was rude and the Pope was nice
They were tired of always adjusting their interpretation of the Bible based on scientific evidence
Correct!
It makes some scriptures difficult to interpret and they believed there’s no good scientific proof
Galileo was too sympathetic to Luther and Calvin
No reasons were given as it was an emotional power play
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Question 6
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/ 10 pts
Although Luther agreed with Aristotle in that the sun moving around the Earth gives us the meaning of our word ‘day,’ he showed he was willing to engage the sciences.
Correct!
True
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False
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Question 7
10
/ 10 pts
After Galileo’s famous inquisition, he was forced to recant heliocentrism, in part because he characterized his opponents as:
Just plain wrong
Correct!
As ‘simple’ people
As ignoring evidence
As stuck in the past
None of the above
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Question 8
10
/ 10 pts
What Scripture was used to speak against Galileo and the Copernican system
by Dominican priest Tommaso Caccini in a 1614 message?
John 3:16—for God so loved the world
Genesis 1:1—In the beginning God created the heavens and Earth
Correct!
Acts 1:11—Why do you stand looking up at heaven
Jeremiah 31:35—the heavens are fixed
Daniel 4:10-12—the giant statue seen to ends of Earth
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Question 9
10
/ 10 pts
Copernicus’ Revolutions was not officially placed on the Index of Prohibited Books but was rather forbidden until what happened?
Their interpretation of Scripture was reconsidered
Galileo apologized for being rude
Correct!
It was made less scientific and more hypothetical
More data came in and it could be more accurately determined
The church fasted and prayed for understanding
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Question 10
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/ 10 pts
Initially in England, they sought to stand against Copernicanism in large part because accommodating the inerrant Scriptures would undermine biblical authority. They also likened it to the early church’s stand against Gnosticism,
Manichaeism and Valentinianism.
Correct!
True
False
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