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There are very few people who will say, “Well, I guess I was wrong on that one"

True enough. I can provide examples of scientsts saying that. Can you provide examples of theologians or clergy saying it?

Can you provide examples of theologians or clergy saying it?

I believe the Curch recently apologised to Galileo. Still waiting on Bruno.

HD-There are very few people who will say, “Well, I guess I was wrong on that one"

VA-I can provide examples of scientsts saying that. Can you provide examples of theologians or clergy saying it?

For I did not think that faith was preceded by God's grace, so that by its means would be given to us what we might profitably ask, except that we could not believe if the proclamation of the truth did not precede; but that we should consent when the gospel was preached to us I thought was our own doing, and came to us from ourselves. And this my error is sufficiently indicated in some small works of mine written before my episcopate. Among these is that which you have mentioned in your letters, wherein is an exposition of certain propositions from the Epistle to the Romans. Eventually, when I was retracting all my small works, and was committing that retractation to writing,—of which task I had already completed two books before I had taken up your more lengthy letters,—when in the first volume I had reached the retractation of this book" - Augustine, A Treatise on Predestination

Augustine, the first early church father to put together a systematic theology of the western church, had no problem admitting he was in error and retracting his works.