Dr. Thomas Madden

But the real thing that every Greek sailor, if you've ever sailed in the Aegean at all, you'll see this.

The coastline in Greece and the Aegean and the islands, they're very mountainous.

So if you sail away from them,

The mountain doesn't go farther and further away.

It sinks below the water.

You can literally watch the mountain sink as you get further away from it.

So it was plainly obvious.

Yeah, poor Galileo.

I mean, Galileo was a great scientist, there's no doubt about it.

He definitely discovered important things.

The problem with Galileo was that he was also a bit of a jerk.

He was one of these kinds of people who became famous as a scientist, and then, and I'm sure we've never met anyone like this in our lifetime, but he started to think that he was science.

And that if you disagreed with him, you were just an imbecile.

And so, and not everything that he thought was true was true.

He became a very big proponent of Copernican model.

And this is the heliocentric model of the universe, that the sun is in the center and that the earth revolves around the sun, which is true.

Copernicus, I should say, is a devout Catholic who devoted, he dedicated his work on the revolution of the spheres to the Pope.

So the Catholic Church was completely in favor of all of these things.

They were in favor of finding out, because the more you learn about God's creation, the more you know about God.

So there was nothing that the Church was opposed to in regards to a heliocentric model.