HAH HAH HAH HAH! Oh, wait. You were serious? It only took them what, 350 years to apologize for Galileo?

Do you think the Vatican will ever apologize for ratlines?

Phew! I thought we were 404 -ever

My bad. I tripped over the forum wires. I plugged it back in.

It'll be interesting to see if he sues for false arrest and malicious prosecution.

Yup. Given the same circumstances, I probably would have done the same thing. I'm intensely curious, and an avid cyclist.

We are all David Hearn.

If the Bible is going to be taught in school then science needs to be taught in church.

Given the number of things Galileo got right, I think he can be forgiven for the tides thing. He was smarter than Aristotle and a major, foundational influence on Newton.

The church's position of course was nonsense.

Yes, of course. He was correct, within the limits of what could be known at the time. His answer was incomplete, as is ours

Jackalope...and the barycenter of the solar system varies within and around the Sun. The extremes are very near the center of the Sun, to just outside it's surface. Cut Galileo some slack. It was ~1600.

Belacqua, you are totally wrong. Galileo's main proof were phases of Venus, moons of Jupiter and sunspots.

At the time there was insufficient empirical evidence for heliocentrism. Galileo's main proof was a theory of how tides work -- which was totally wrong.

i mean, technically Galileo wasn't entirely correct as the earth and sun (and everything else in the solar system) orbit a common center of gravity.

And on October 31, 1992, Pope John Paul II admitted that the Catholic Church was wrong, and posthumously pardoned Galileo. Only 359 years later.

on this day in 1633 the Holy Office in Rome forced Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the solar system. let us not allow faith to blind us to truth and scientific advancement.

FSM be praised. KNICKS IN FIVE!

*Begins my trek for my cupcake*

*transportation not included