[Verginius Rufus]

It's the same issue which arose when Copernicus challenged the commonly-held belief that the earth was the center of the universe and did not move, while the sun, planets, and stars revolved around the earth. When Copernicus' book was published, Luther and Calvin rejected his theory as contrary to the Scriptures. The Catholic Church eventually condemned his book but not until about 70 years later. Nowadays no one has any trouble accepting that the earth is a planet revolving around the sun and rotating on its axis.

Galileo said, "The Bible teaches us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go."

[dfwgator]

It's the same issue which arose when Copernicus challenged the commonly-held belief that the earth was the center of the universe and did not move, while the sun, planets, and stars revolved around the earth. When Copernicus' book was published, Luther and Calvin rejected his theory as contrary to the Scriptures.

Yeah, what did that dumb Polack know anyway? ;)

[DManA]

The Earth-centric model fit the available data better than the heliocentric model. So if at the time you purely looked at the data you would have to have rejected Copernicus.

Also Copernicus clung to the superstitious idea that orbits were perfect circles.