[AntiGuv]

[Galileo] broke a legal agreement.

What legal agreement? Here's an excellent account I just tracked down of the persecution of Galileo by the enemies of science in the Catholic Church. Perhaps you should read that before answering.

Note, btw, the shady methods of Galileo's enemies and how remarkably similar they are to modern creationist tactics....

[King Prout]

"My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?"

sounds awfully familiar...