>They made a big mistake when they abandoned geocentrism just because the scientific evidence said so.
"[It is my] loving duty to seek the truth in all things, in so far as God has granted that to human reason." Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543).
Accepting Heliocentricism was hardly the same abandoning the Bible. The Medieval Church clung to geocentrism, not because of the Bible, but because they made the mistake of accepting the scientific orthodoxy of their day.
That's odd, you say one thing, and the learned churchmen who convicted Galileo of heresy say another. Whom should we believe?
We say, pronounce, sentence, and declare, that thou, the said Galileo, by the things deduced during this trial, and by thee confessed as above, hast rendered thyself vehemently suspected of heresy by this Holy Office, that is, of having believed and held a doctrine which is false, and contrary to the Holy Scriptures, to wit: that the Sun is the centre of the universe, and that it does not move from east to west, and that the Earth moves and is not the centre of the universe: and that an opinion may be held and defended as probable after having been declared and defined as contrary to Holy Scripture; and in consequence thou hast incurred all the censures and penalties of the Sacred Canons ...Source: The Crime of Galileo: Indictment and Abjuration of 1633.