“Andreas Ehrenberg hastens to stress in his preface to Curiose und wohlgegründete Gedanken (Jena, c. 1710) that the case he makes for the existence of many inhabited worlds will give “all Christians” cause to extol God’s wisdom, power, and majesty still more highly; but he reaches his conclusion that “we are not alone” purely by the scientific method of analogical reasoning and by arguing from the belief that the Creator’s activity must be purposeful. This demonstration is followed by a second section: “How Holy Scripture possibly can and must be taken, understood, and elucidated in order not to be contrary to our opinion” (pp. 7–8). […] But for Ehrenberg, the Bible is no longer an independent source of knowledge about the natural world: on the contrary, it must be read in the light of scientific knowledge. In other words, it is necessary to show that, correctly interpreted, the words of the biblical passages that speak of a circling sun and a stationary Earth (Josh. 10:12–13; Ps. 19:6–7) are in accord with the findings of science. Viewed in the proper light, as a description of the mere appearance of things, or as a version of the truth adapted to unsophisticated minds, the Bible only appears to express a geocentric conception of the universe. In reality its cosmology is that of Copernicus—which Ehrenberg, like so many others, sees as the basis for the plurality of worlds.” (Guthke, The Last Frontier, p. 204)

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