I've always been taught that the Catholic Church silences Galileo because it was afraid his ideas were against scripture. Did the Catholic Church silence Galileo because he argued that his Heliocentric model went against scripture, or because the Catholic Church was against "science?" 📷

by nueoritic-parents

Edit: I have no idea how that camera got in there

DanKensington

There's a lot more to the matter than those two dimensions, as it happens. More can always be said; while we wait for new material contributions, here's some posts on the matter of Galileo:

u/ManicMarine covers his two trials in this post;
while u/restricteddata explains why the Church reacted as they did to Galileo.