I think that there is one point that is always left out of the story about Galileo and the Heliocentric view. It wasn't so much that it was unbelievable as that it rocked the standard teachings so much that time was necessary to reconcile the two. There was also a problem with proponents of the Heliocentric view that the Universe is infinite but if God created the Universe He must be outside of it but if the Universe truly were infinite then there would be no room for God. All of this stuff still had to be worked out.
I think that there is one point that is always left out of the story about Galileo and the Heliocentric view. It wasn't so much that it was unbelievable as that it rocked the standard teachings so much that time was necessary to reconcile the two. There was also a problem with proponents of the Heliocentric view that the Universe is infinite but if God created the Universe He must be outside of it but if the Universe truly were infinite then there would be no room for God. All of this stuff still had to be worked out.
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