I would think that during this time, if the Pope said something and someone had conflicting information it probably behooved the Catholic Church to silence any opinion that differed from the church. Just my guess, again I'm not a Biblical scholar. Overall, pretty impressive though that Galileo was spot on with his observations. Unfortunately, he was largely condemned for his views during his time. I guess though he gets to brag in heaven that he was right and they were wrong.
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Trial of Galileo
I'm not a biblical scholar of any sort, but its interesting that Galileo was put on trial for heresy. One of the reasons claimed is because his assertion that the Sun is in the middle of the universe conflicted with the Catholic Church's view of scripture. However, I don't know if I've ever heard a place in the Bible that explains the alignment of the planets and specifically the sun. I wonder of there were basing these accusations on the actual Bible or just because it conflicted with the previous writing of Pope's or other influential members of the Vatican.
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My guess would be that the "conficting" was all an excuse. They probably found some tiny little saying that could kinda-sorta-maybe be taken as saying that the Earth is the center and used that. I aggree that it would be kind of interesting to know exactly what his findings conflicted with :)
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