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Galileo defended his views against the Catholic Church while trying not to offend them. He claimed that his theories don’t question the existence of God. He believed Nature follows laws that cannot be altered or changed, and that is why what he could see or experience shouldn’t be doubted: “For that reason it appears that nothing physical which sense-experience sets before our eyes… ought to be called in question.”

Galileo said Nature and the Bible show God in a similar way, with just as much authority. Galileo wrote: "Nor is God any less excellently revealed in Nature's actions than in the sacred statements of the Bible.” He argues that he himself believes in God, and is a Catholic, while also believing his theories. Galileo stated that he did not “believe that that same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”

Although Galileo didn’t argue against God, he believed the Bible shouldn’t be taken as literally as some take it. Even though the Bible is a text to help guide people, it doesn’t have all the answers. "The authority of the Bible was designed to persuade men of those articles and propositions which, surpassing all human reasoning, could be made credible by science,” Galileo said. According to Galileo, The Bible didn’t contain understanding for truths that science or reason could prove. He stated that “The Bible, in order to be accommodated to the understanding of every man, to speak many things which appear to differ from the absolute truth so far as the bare meaning of words is concerned."