[montag813]

There goes the church of Rome again, muddying the waters for everyday people who have just as much access to the Throne of God as the Pope thinks he does.

This silly article reminds me of the mental gymnastics required to decipher the Church's absurd "epicycles" to fill the gaps (eg. Mars' retrograde motion) in Ptolemy's false geocentric theory.

[edwinland]

The Church’s epicycles? Can you support your contention that the Church invented epicycles?

In fact Copernicus relied even more heavily on epicycles than did Ptolemy, to square his Aristotelian assumption of circular orbits with actual observations of elliptical orbits. Epicycles were only solved by Kepler’s theory of elliptical orbits.

The Church has pretty much nothing to do with the transition from Copernicus to Kepler.