This is perfect proof of this twits ignorance.
It wasn't Galileo who "pointed out the earth revolves around the sun." It was Copernicus, among others. Galileo was technically accused of supporting the Copernican theories in his book, but even that was a fraud. He was really put on trial for insulting the Pope, by putting the Pope's arguments into the mouth of a character named "Simplicio," meaning "simpleton." Basically he was on trial for being an ass.
On top of that Galileo had called the Vatican's own astronomers (Scheiner and Grassi) who actually supported the Copernican view of our Solar System, as frauds. And, unlike Galileo they actually had evidence that could support the theory with observation and calculations, which the Church actually would accept. Galileo denounced them, among other things, by claiming that the comets whose orbits they calculated (using "Copernican formulae" developed by Kepler) were actually optical illusions.
Sounds like algore to me.
Yep. The moonbats have picked the perfect mascot for their charade. A loudmouth jerk who had a good press agent and was unscrupulous enough to steal from his betters and claim the work as his own. Oh, you didn't know about the little trouble with the historical claim the he "invented" the telescope? That's because most science (and history) that is taught in this country, such as that relied on by algore, is crap.
He also made many discoveries using his home made scopes, such as 4 of the moons of jupiter. As for optical illusions, he was told by many that his telescope(the one he made) was nothing but an optical illusion, so I guess he had heard the argument before!
History is full of inaccuracies because people, scientists too, tend to take credit for things they didn't do!
Al Gore, for instance, invented the internet!