Galileo Galilei Influence On Religion

Galileo Galilei was considered to be the father of modern science because of his major contributions to physics, astronomy, cosmology, mathematics, and philosophy. Galileo improved on the invention of the telescope and let him observe the moons of Jupiter in which he realized that the moon was imperfect and helped his argument about the universe being perfect. His ideas and his Dialogue Between the Two Great Systems of the World (1632) earned him many enemies among the Catholic Church. Galileo’s ideas forced him to be brought before the elite leaders of the Cchurch in 1616 and 1633 where he was forced to take back the ideas he brought out to the public. He was placed under house arrest where he died at the brink of his age. What is your thesis?

“The sun is the center of the world and motionless is a proposition which is philosophically absurd and false, and formally heretical, for being explicitly contrary to Holy Scripture; That the earth is neither the center of the world nor motionless but moves even with diurnal motion is philosophically equally absurd and false.” (The Later Inquisition Proceedings) This needs to be referenced in a footnote or an endnote. This was the argument that the church used against Galileo’s theories and basically told him that he was completely wrong and absurd to think of such things and to even go against the church.Christian theology holds that the great scheme of God revolves around Humankind; God's only son is a human,God created the Earth and all other animals for Mankind (Genesis 1:28 etc). This too needs to be a footnote or an endnote. It was challenging for Christians to face the facts that the Earth wasn't the centre of the universe. Also challenging were other basic facts of astronomy in which Galileo proved those ideas to be true; that the universe is massive, and the Earth is only one of many planets, and the likely fact that there is life elsewhere in the universe too. Galileo argued against this theory and that was the reason the Church persecuted him for it because they didn’t want anyone going against their

They believed that the only way to control the people was by using force of any kind for the the ones that went against their beliefs. The biggest problem that the Cchurch was facing was that Aristotle's beliefs were going out of style because of people like Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton Newton comes later... but the Cchurch was still attached to those ideas. If the ideas of Aristotle were wrong, then Christianity was wrong. This would be the church'schurches biggest fear and the only way they could prevent that from happening was if they used force and power to eliminate the people that were going against their beliefs. So during the Trial, of Galileo was brought before the Roman Inquisition in 1633 where he was asked to take back his ideas. Galileo did as he was told and told the leaders of the church that he did it unintentionally. He asked the Cchurch for forgiveness as he did not want to die. “Having before my eyes and touching with my hands the Holy Gospels, swear that I have always believed, I believe now and with God’s help will believe in the future all that the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church holds, preaches, and teaches.” (The Later Inquisition Proceedings). Again, this needs to be in footnote or endnote format. The Church banned Galileo from writing of any kind that would go against their teachings and to stop supporting and spreading Copernicus's ideas. They banned his book from being