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- Galileo did not believe the Bible was explaining the physics of the heavens. He quoted a cardinal, saying the Bible teaches “how to go to heaven not how the heavens go.” Whatever the case, Galileo found himself in trouble after he published his masterwork, the "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems."
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Dec 22, 2016 · But four centuries ago, the idea of a heliocentric solar system was so controversial that the Catholic Church classified it as a heresy, and warned the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei to abandon it.
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Feb 15, 2024 · Galileo was defending the heliocentric theory of Copernicus, whereas there were several passages in Scripture that seemed to imply that the earth is at rest and the sun in motion around the earth, most notably Joshua 10:12-13, Ecclesiastes 1:5, and Psalm 19:5-6.
Galileo before the Holy Office, a 19th-century painting by Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury. The Galileo affair (Italian: il processo a Galileo Galilei) began around 1610 and culminated with the trial and condemnation of Galileo Galilei by the Roman Catholic Inquisition in 1633.
OBJECTOR: Okay, so Galileo was not forbidden to continue his scientific work. But the fact remains that the Church condemned a proven scientific theory by invoking the Bible. CATHOLIC: We must remember that no one—not even Galileo, has he acknowledged—had proof for the motion of the earth in 1632.
It is commonly believed that the Catholic Church persecuted Galileo for abandoning the geocentric (earth-at-the-center) view of the solar system for the heliocentric (sun-at-the-center) view. The Galileo case, for many anti-Catholics, is thought to prove that the Church abhors science, refuses to abandon outdated teachings, and is not infallible.
Nov 13, 2009 · Galileo was ordered to turn himself in to the Holy Office to begin trial for holding the belief that the Earth revolves around the sun, which was deemed heretical by the Catholic...
Sep 18, 2020 · Galileo’s story is certainly not one of church versus science. But Galileo’s trial was indeed a terrible injustice. Historians debate the root of that injustice.
