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Galileo vs the Catholic Church, the 350 year old debate continues.
The disagreement between Galileo and the Catholic church began back in the 17th century when Galileo began offering observations that supported Copernicus’s theory that the planet Earth was revolving around the sun rather then the sun revolving around the Earth.
CHRISTIANGAYS.COM: Vatican Admits Galileo Correct
Thirteen years after he appointed it, a commission of historic, scientific and theological inquiry brought the pope a "not guilty" finding for Galileo, who, at age 69 in 1633, was forced by the Roman Inquisition to repent and spent the last eight years of his life under house arrest.
The commission found that Galileo's clerical judges acted in good faith but rejected his theories because they were "incapable of dissociating faith from an age-old cosmology" -- the biblical version of the Earth as the center of the universe.
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No episode in the history of the Catholic Church is so
misunderstood as the condemnation of Galileo. It is, in
Newman's phrase, the one stock argument used to show
that science and Catholic dogma are antagonistic. To
the popular mind, the Galileo affair is prima facie
evidence that the free pursuit of truth became possible
only after science "liberated" itself from the
theological shackles of the Middle Ages. The case makes
for such a neat morality play of enlightened science
versus dogmatic obscuratism that historians are seldom
tempted to correct the anti-Catholic "spin" that is
usually put on it. Even many intelligent Catholics
would prefer that the whole sorry affair be swept under
a rug.
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