[DesertRhino]

Bullshine. The church itself contradicted that just last year. The Roman inquisition was not a simple search for rigorous academic standards.
By their OWN records, they forbade him to even defend his theories, stop all defense of them, and said they were against the scripture.

But whatever, the arguments about his “proof” etc,, misses the elephant in the room. By what right to they arrest and try ANYONE? Where did Jesus teach that? They made it up out of whole cloth.

[Montana_Sam]

Your anachronistic argument totally misses the mark. The politics of the time were not the politics of a democracy. The university professors who first brought the charges against Galileo (because the Copernican model threatened their position) took the case to the only tribunal that could have had any jurisdiction in the era of splintered nationalities.

And even then, the Church refused to act until Galileo attempted to rewrite the Bible AND he wrote a play that mocked the Pope for supporting him. At that point the Pope, who had been one of Galileo's supporters, told him basically that he was on his own. So get a grip of the facts before you make wild accusations. Good grief!