[Lady Blue03]

Originally posted by Leonis: quote: Originally posted by The Hunter of Jahanna: quote: Jun 22 1633 The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his scientific view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe: "I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith these errors and heresies, and I curse and detest them as well as any other error, heresy or sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church."

Yup , it was Galileo, And look what they did to him for it!! Proof to my earlier statement that religon stands in the way of science.[/QUOTE]Umm. Not exactly. It was common knowledge that the earth was round at the time (and had been since biblical times). Galileo's findings supported Copernicanism - which was that all objects in our system revolved around the sun, not 1) the earth or 2) some earth, some sun.

He was forced to recant as stated above and confined to house arrest (at his villa) for life.[/QUOTE]I knew i would get proved wrong, just had to be sure. Subject Galileo dropped