quote “it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier,” Cruz said in the interview.”
Actually... Galileo didn’t argue that the earth was flat, but that the sun was at the center of our solar system and not the earth.
I am not trying to pick on Cruz here, just trying to stop false information from being spread.
Read it again...
Cruz is saying that it was settled science that the world was flat and Galileo said otherwise, making him (Galileo) a heretic and a flat earth denier.