I've never seen Copernicus/Galileo versus the Catholic Church spun as you do. Scientists convinced the church that Ptolemy was scriptural? What were Copernicus and Galileo, farmers? Laymen can lie to the Pope about the Pope's job?
You say creation is a "framework." It looks more like blinders to me.
I expect much the same could be said of those tossing around calculations that may not have made much sense to the priests in those days. Do a Google search on Galileo or visit the local library and look through a few biographies of him.
I doubt any links to articles I provide you on this subject would really be considered "authoritative" to you given that I subscribe to a different framework than yourself. But if you find this information on your own, then I'd say you and I would have a better chance of agreeing, at least, on this one subject.
And I would suggest that those who are uninterested in honestly looking at the competing frameworks are the ones being blinded. I'd also guess that the majority of those reading responses that disagree with their own on this forum begin to formulate their argument before they've even finished reading the post...just because the first few words disagreed with their worldview.
Blind indeed.