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How has Galileo influenced the Church?

Asked by xTheDreamer (897points) November 23rd, 2010

I was wondering how Galileo has influenced the Church or to what has he influenced the Church in his era.

I only know that the Church did not liked Galileo’s theory of how the Earth rotates around the sun and not what the Church has thought it was(thus the Earth was central of the universe and other planets rotated around it) and they were very upset about this. This is how the Church reactions was.

You would hear that back in those days the Church had the power to influence the people in the society but has Galileo ever had any influence on the Church? And how so?

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