The RCC was not a big fan of science that diverted from Aristotles model, much as todays secularists are hostile to anything that infers design in nature, thought they repeatedly use terms like 'engineered', 'designed', etc to describe what complexity they do find has evolved in nature.
Also, note that it was the RCC that finally did accept Galileo and in fact promoted his work after finally accepting that Aristotle was wrong.
So can we cut the slander of the RCC as their actions to promote and undo the harm they did cause is centuries old already?
Also, note that it was the RCC that finally did accept Galileo and in fact promoted his work after finally accepting that Aristotle was wrong
This is not very accurate history. The Catholic Church (it's universities anyway) invented the scientific method. The church had no real beef at all with science that strayed from Aristotle. After all, it was Galileo that insisted that orbits were round (since that was a perfect form, as defined by Aristotle). Galileo attacked Kepler unmercifully for postulating that orbits were elipses, a proposition that found immediate audiance in Catholic universities. Galileo had a long running fued with Jesuit astronomers who determined that comets traveled on eliptical orbits - Galileo rejected the existance of comets as physical objects (he argued that they were some sort of trick of light) rather than accept orbits that were not round.
The real argument between Galileo and the Church was rooted in a largely personel dispute between Galileo and the Pope which happened to occur at the time of the Reformation. It had little to do with science.