[ROCKLOBSTER]

both Galileo and his opponents were partly right and partly wrong. Galileo was right in asserting the mobility of the earth and wrong in asserting the immobility of the sun. His opponents were right in asserting the mobility of the sun and wrong in asserting the immobility of the earth.

He was much less wrong than they were.

[DesertRhino]

The only fact one needs know, and that is that Galileo was _not_ free to walk away, go where he wanted, publish what he would, and call it a theory, a fact, or whatever he pleased.

That is the discussion, not the merits of the theory. The problem was that a religion claimed such authority at all.