Somehow I see a pattern where university and public school classrooms are concerned, natural selection and random mutation being the ultimate trump card that "wins every argument."
Many within the Catholic Church of Galileo's day welcomed his discoveries. I would not be surprised if he had more friends than enemies within the church. His enemies acted not entirely out of disrespect for scientific truth, and partly in response to Galileo's arrogant tone. To the end he maintained respect for the church, and for the universe he saw as a creation of God.
Your understanding of the studies, effects, and trial of Galileo is skewed from the inside. You would rather not admit that a.) the church was in large part a champion of science at the time, and b.) science was clinging to Aristotelian dogma like most of the rest of the world.
Science doesn't employ burning at the stake to make it's scientific arguements. That would be as opposed to the Catholic church in Galileo's day.
Your understanding of the studies, effects, and trial of Galileo is skewed from the inside. You would rather not admit that a.) the church was in large part a champion of science at the time, and b.) science was clinging to Aristotelian dogma like most of the rest of the world.
I understand this perfectly well. It has little bearing on the big issues in the Trial of Galileo as conventionally understood by conventional historians.
The Trail occured because the inquisition did not want the ideas in his book spread around--not because Galileo offended their sensibilities, even if a couple of recent books, largely by Catholic apologists, say otherwise.
This is ridiculous, paper-thin, historical revisionism.