The point remains that there is no opposition between science and Catholic religion; you can speculate all you want what Descartes would have been in the 21 century, and I can speculate what Europe would have been without Catholic monasteries and universities.
Galileo’s research was evaluated based on “what was scientifically known at the time”, exactly so. As opposed to what we think should have been evident in hindsight.
People forget that the personality of Galileo played a large role in his downfall. He befriended a man who became pope, sand then he played the same man as a fool in a book her wrote. The pope ended his friendship and left him in the hands of a Church Cour peopled by Aristotelians. The irony is that Galileo made many assertions that went fare beyond what the evidence available to him showed. It took Newton to come up with a solid theory that proved what Galileo assumed to be true.