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History of science, concept. Nicholas Copernicus author of the heliocentric system of the world,
History of science, concept. Nicholas Copernicus author of the heliocentric system of the world,

Unbelievable: Galileo Proved the Church’s Irrational Opposition to Science

Michael Newton Keas
May 31, 2022
Series
ID the Future
Host
Andrew McDiarmid
Guest
Michael Keas
Duration
00:15:15
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On this ID the Future from the vault, host Andrew McDiarmid interviews science historian and author Michael Keas about Keas’ ISI book Unbelievable: 7 Myths About the History and Future of Science and Religion. The myth they tackle on this episode is the notion that the Catholic Church willfully ignored incontrovertible scientific evidence against geocentrism and tortured the astronomer Galileo for promoting a sun-centered model of the solar system, and that they opposed him on purely religious grounds. As Keas explains, in fact Galileo had found support for heliocentrism but hadn’t proved it scientifically; there were scientists and theologians both against him and for him; and he wasn’t tortured anyway.