Galileo was prosecuted for advocating a theory that he could not prove and that was seen as contrary to the scripture. What spin?
***Galileo was prosecuted for advocating a theory that he could not prove ***
So the Church was prosecuting him for having a faulty scientific method???
***and that was seen as contrary to the scripture.***
Here's the item! He was prosecuted for advocating the Copernican system which was in conflict with Aquinas's Roman Catholic-Aristotelian cosmology.
***What spin?***
The spin I see is this, rather than take the blame and admit that the "Tradition" of the day was wrong they are trying to say the fault was with ecclesiastical figures who took the Bible too literally - as if it all wouldn't have happened if we had a lower view of the Scriptures.