People who say stupid things like this are degenerates working underhandedly to make conservatism appear synonymous with dismal ignorance. This conservative shuns them.
Overturning the view of Ptolemy (the war of Joshua 10:13, if anything), spanned from 1543 to 1750. All the same pronouncements of abandoning God and going against scripture were adopted. Copernicus' work contradicted then-accepted religious dogma - some took it to mean that, if true, there was no need of God, that science could explain everything that was attributed to Him. Osiander (Lutheran theologian) even proclaimed that the heliocentric account of the earth's movement was a mere mathematical hypothesis - that it was not the Truth, that it was just simply too unlikely to be true.