Therefore, the question remains, why did the church condemn Galileo with such severity? ... So what made Galileo more of a threat than Luther or Calvin? ... According to Galileo, however, his intentions were anything but what the Church assumed they were. ... "* Galileo's generally sarcastic manner in dealing with people did not help him sway the Church either. ... Indeed, Galileo's suggestion in this footnote that the earth-centered view of the universe may someday be considered heretical only provides further evidence of Galileo's boldness. ...

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When Galileo taught the world it was not the center of the solar system but that all the planets revolved around the sun. ... "Rich Men- 15 September 2003 http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/richmen.htm established, condemned this thinking; Galileo was an outcast to their society, he didn't follow the teachings of the government's church; A church that would seek out and prosecute its non-believers. Galileo's theory was not accepted until much after his death, when science started to become more accepted.3 The religious evolutionist must not read the Bible as Gods word but rather...

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Two scientists, Nicholas Copernicus and Galileo Galilei, both held the same theory that the Earth was revolving around the sun, but were punished because the church took the bible to literal that the Earth is at center. ...

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As the modern age began, religion (particularly Christianity) resisted the cosmological observations and theories of scientists (consider the case of Galileo) because of a perceived opposition to and discrediting of certain biblical and theological propositions. ...

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