Why did the Catholic Church condemn Galileo for promoting a heliocentric theory of the universe?
The Catholic Church condemned Galileo for promoting a heliocentric theory of the universe back in those days, because during those times, the Catholic Churches believed that God created the universe everything around us, revolving around Earth; not the sun. And when Galileo found out the truth to the theory, the Catholic Churches were wrong. The Catholics did not want to be shamed for their mistake, so they condemned Galileo for judging and comparing God with his scientific research. They also condemned Galileo from promoting his research and information to others because they were afraid that their believers will turn away and deceive them, away from God. To your last question: Does this mean this mean that the Holy Scripture is wrong then? From all the information summed up and what we know today, I presumably and would say that the Holy Scripture of the Catholic Churches is wrong; because if God was the almighty and the all-knowing, he wouldn’t have put false information or errors i
It wasn’t so much Galileo’s heliocentric teaching (Copernicus’s “De Revolutionibus” was published 90 years earlier, and it advocated a mathematical proof of heliocentrism) as a personality conflict between Galileo and the then-reigning Pope Urban VIII. Both men had egos large enough to warp space-time. Galileo’s mathematical presentations had won the support of the academically-minded Cardinal Robert Bellarmine, but Bellarmine admonished Galileo to teach heliocentrism as a hypothesis rather than fact for fear that it might lead to a subversion of the Church. Galileo didn’t listen and pressed on that his theories were fact. Newton (in 1757) avoided such treatment by proving that astronomical phenomena made no sense without heliocentricity. Copernicus avoided the Church’s ire by being dead at the time of his works’ publication. Note that Bellarmine was right to fear subversion – 1633 found Catholics and the nascent Protestant groups in all-out war. Ironically, anecdotal evidence points t
Galileo was a genius in the same way as was Leonardo DV or Isaac Newton – he dared to suggest that the Earth revolved around the SUN and that the Earth was not the centre of the Universe set on 4 corners with Foundations – the Christian Church (POPE) wanted him dead – but because he was so well respected – they kicked him out of the church (excommunicated) and put him under House arrest for the rest of his life – hundreds of years later in the 1960’s they decided (the POPE and his dopes) that maybe he was right!!! – -Dopes have always been in charge of the Religious moronic followers!!…………….
