“Galileo had scientific evidence. The Church had fake data.“
Galileo couldn’t scientifically prove what he claimed was fact. He could have done all the claiming he wanted if he put it in his own book. THAT was the problem the church had with him. There were three different theories people were arguing at the time. Plenty of people who were arguing the various theories were clerics. It was the church itself that gave Galileo the forum to argue the very thing he argued. They KNEW what he wanted to argue. He went ahead and asserted his idea as fact in a book printed under the imprimatur of the Catholic Church while being unable to PROVE IT. To put the cherry on the parfait the three part literary technique he used in his argument obviously cast the Pope himself as “the fool”.
Galileo has always seemed to me to be a guy who had a good solid asskicking coming. The left love him though for his usefulness in casting the church as “anti science”.
“Galileo couldn’t scientifically prove what he claimed was fact. “
Galileo totally destroyed geocentrism with his observations if Jupiter’s moons and Venus’ phases.
“Galileo has always seemed to me to be a guy who had a good solid asskicking coming. “
In 2000, the Pope issued an apology for the treatment of Galileo.
“It was the church itself that gave Galileo the forum to argue the very thing he argued. “
He was allowed to argue for heliocentrism only if he at the same time also argued against heliocentrism.
Galileo tried to show that heliocentrism did not conflict with the Bible but the Church declared that heresy.