church – It's what we make of it https://itswhatwemakeofit.org Let's make it better Thu, 02 Sep 2021 01:54:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 The Earth moves around the Sun https://itswhatwemakeofit.org/the-earth-moves-around-the-sun/ Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:27:00 +0000 https://itswhatwemakeofit.org/?p=2300 In Sidereus Nuncius Galileo said the the Earth moves around the Sun.

Later at the Papal sentencing of Galileo it was said: “The proposition that the Sun is the center of the world and does not move from it place is absurd and false philosophically and formally heretical, because it is expressly contrary to Holy Scripture.”

Galileo recanted.

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