[erman]

the church didn't laud any such thing. I don't know where you studied history but they USED the MATH of heliocentrism but did NOT encourage heliocentrism. Those FACTS are missing from your misguided defense of the Catholic church's treatment of Galileo.

It has nothing to do against the church but the men in the church.

If you know for a fact that the church was helping and encouraging Galileo, who put him under house arrest?

the fact that you think NO other institution was capable is again misguided. Middle Eastern math models were made that were more accurate than some of the western models.

Anytime you have institutions run by men more concerned with power than with truth, you'll get oppression and the suppression of knowledge.

[Notwithstanding]

http://www.traditioninaction.org/History/A_003_Galileo.html

http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/apologetics/ap0138.html

http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2240&Itemid=66&ed=1

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OWU5ZDk3NGY3OGI4NDY1OTdmNzc2NmEzYjUzZWQxNWE=

http://davidaslindsay.blogspot.com/2008/01/myth-of-galileo.html

http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/archives/004215.html

http://news.aol.com/newsbloggers/2007/11/25/debunking-the-galileo-myth/

http://www.newoxfordreview.org/article.jsp?did=0600-lessl

and, miraculously, even the “article” in the godless leftist ultra-biased Wikipedia has some accurate information that refutes your tired regurgitation of the Great Galileo Myth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair#Inquisition_examination