[AndrewC]

He, Copernicus and Galileo went all persecuted by the church for embracing the "earth revolves around the sun" theory

Still wrong. Who persecuted Copernicus? And you might think a little bit about what was going on in Christendom around that time. Does the name Martin Luther ring a bell? He died in 1546 three years after Copernicus died. Martin Luther was a German, Copernicus was Polish and the Pope was Catholic.

[JeffAtlanta]

Do you deny that the church resisted the theories of Copernicus due to their understandings of bible verses? Do you think that their position on the matter has changed?

[Hunble]

You are correct. In that time and place, the major threat to the Catholic authority, was this new movement of citizens actually reading the Bible.

Since the Catholic church was in mortal danger, ever effort to suppress it, had to be done.

We all know the rest of the story...

Bruno, Copernicus and Galileo were just innocent people caught in the tide of political change.

Major lesson to learn?

Never get your local religious representatives upset with you!