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By George Sim Johnston Galileo's condemnation by Church
authorities for promoting the heliocentric model of the solar system against a literal
reading of certain passages of scripture did not loom large in the minds of his
contemporaries. But in modern times, it has become a kind of myth, which is used to show
that science and Church dogma are antagonistic. This essay
examines the affair in detail and shows that, while certain Church authorities indeed made
grave errors, the whole episode is badly misrepresented by the Church's critics.
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