conservativebrew:

dennisjoealoy:

yarnandbeer:

The Catholic Church disagreed with (and punished) Galileo for his theory that the Earth was not the center of the universe.

Technically, Copernicus came up with that theory, but he didn’t have a method to prove it. Telescopes at that time were more like toilet paper tube telescopes. You know what…

http://archive.catholic.com/library/Galileo_Controversy.asp

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Anti-Catholics often assert that his conviction and later rehabilitation somehow disproves the doctrine of papal infallibility, but this is not the case, for the pope never tried to make an infallible ruling concerning Galileo’s views.

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As more recent science has shown, both Galileo and his opponents were partly right and partly wrong. Galileo was right in asserting the mobility of the earth and wrong in asserting the immobility of the sun as a centre of the Universe. His opponents were right in asserting the mobility of the sun and wrong in asserting the immobility of the earth.

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  More than that: Sun DOES rotate around the Earth, as everyone from scientists to children can see. And Earth rotates around the Sun. In fact, motion is always RELATIVE to a chosen inertial frame of reference.