You: Of course they did -- once they had sufficient reason to do so. Scientific progress was of great help in this regard
I said "condemned", not "embraced". Still doesn't make sense to me.
As far as I know, neither Luther nor "the Pope" (which Pope? Certainly not the present Pope, nor his immediate predecessor) "embraced" heliocentrism.
I'm sorry, Virginia-American, but I am really not following you here. Help???