Biblical inerrancy: Difference between revisions

For Catholics as for Protestants, the challenge to inerrancy became serious when the Bible began to come into conflict with science: first astronomy (heliocentrism){{Citation needed}}, then geology (the age of the earth) and finally biology (the evolution of species). By the 19th century, some Catholic thinkers were suggesting the same solution as some Protestants: inerrancy in the Bible is restricted to matters of doctrine and morality. [[Galileo]] had already said something similar in the early 17th century when, quoting Cardinal [[Caesar Baronius]], he had quipped: "The Bible teaches us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei#Letter_to_the_Grand_Duchess_Christina_(1615).html|title=Wikiquote; Galileo Galilei}}</ref>