“Actually, in order for one object to be “circling” another, you have to assume that one is in a fixed position. Since modern science tells us that both the earth and the sun are in motion, its just as logical to say the sun is revolving around the earth as vice versa. Just sayin...”
So therefore using your critical method of logic, the earth circles the moon. Just sayin...
But my MAIN point was that Galileo went against the prevailing religious take on the matter, and wound up under house arrest.
Galileo is considered the father of modern science. He was correct about the solar system, and the religious people were wrong.
No, silly. The point is that the whole “scientist” worldview is that scientists determine “facts” that exist regardless of whether, or how, they are observed by human beings ... but lo and behold, the supposed “fact” that the earth revolves around the sun is made problematic by the equal fact that both bodies are in motion, so now the scientist must say it is “as if” the earth revolves around the sun. Big difference. If the scientist is going to throw in “as ifs”, I might as well base my view on my perception, that looking up into the sky for a whole day, it is “as if” the sun revolves around the earth.