Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.
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Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.
The resistance to science is idiotic.
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
Philosophy was once considered science.
Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, we find humanity in a comical position. His scientific intellect believes in the possibility of miracles inside a black hole, while his religious intellect believes in them outside it.
It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.
Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.
Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree.