The truth is they weren't, they were against the way Galileo was presenting it. Galileo patron was the church his findings were enough for him to believe it was scientific law. The Catholic Church in an attempt to please Protestants accusing them of not taking The Bible seriously told Galileo to treat it as a theory. He refused after multiple warnings he was arrested for being insubordinate and the church went on to fund other people willing to treat the Heliocentric theory as a theory not fact.
Likes: Created Copernican Theory, proposed heliocentric theory, great astronomer Dislikes: Went against Church's theory, went against Bible's theory, disagreed with geocentric theory.
copernicus coined the heliocentric theory...
Heliocentric = The Sun is at the center of our solar system. Geocentric = The Earth is at the center of our solar system. Insisting the Sun is at the center, which it is, once very much angered the church.
Yes. The geocentric theory was established by renowned ancient thinkers like Aristotle and Ptolemy. It was also the belief of the then-dominant Roman Catholic Church. Few people were willing to challenge the teachings of Ptolemy, Aristotle and the Roman Catholic church. When Galileo Galilei proposed the heliocentric theory, he was prosecuted by the Catholic church. He was forced to take his theories back or risk ruining his family's reputation as well as death.
Geocentric theory
the heliocentric theory threathened the church because the church beleived it was a hypothesis, but Galileo was teaching it as if it were proven fact
He apologized and said he was wrong apex
He apologized and said he was wrong apex
He apologized and said he was wrong apex
He apologized and said he was wrong apex
He apologized and said he was wrong apex
He apologized and said he was wrong apex
Likes: Created Copernican Theory, proposed heliocentric theory, great astronomer Dislikes: Went against Church's theory, went against Bible's theory, disagreed with geocentric theory.
Geocentric theory was the first explanation of the solar system that completely explained and predicted the apparent motions of the planets. The church also embraced this theory and defended it against the heliocentric theory.
Galileo did not propose a heliocentric theory, he agreed with Copernicus and his heliocentric theory. The Catholic church, at the time, disagreed and they held a huge amount of power and put him on trial.
The heliocentric theory puts the Sun - not the Earth - in the middle. This annoyed the Church, which thought that humans - the finest of God's Creations - should be in the middle.
Church officials believed the theory contradicted current religious teachings