Talk:Galileo/@comment-3338975-20120630222301

You do realize, that despite the basics of Galieo's views ultimately proving to be true, he could never produce a credible mechanism to explain his heliocentric theories that would hold water with the scientific minds of his time? He may have been right, but he wasn't right for the reasons he thought he was, and he was kind of arrogant "in your face" about it to the scientists of his day. It was actually his scientific rivals who had to go out and bring the highest authority of their day (the papacy) against him, despite the fact that the Pope was formerly on amicable terms with him, and it wasn't so much that he was taking the Bible in a non-literalistic way which caused him to be condemned as it was the fact that the heliocentric theory (as he framed it) really didn't have enough data in its favor to warrant such a change in how it had formerly been interperted.