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religious figure and scientist are the same person
I'm sure Galileo felt differently.
Wasn't he a Catholic?
Read his letter to Castelli
and he never faced corporal punishment, he was under house arrest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre was one of the pioneers behind the Big Bang Theory
. Galileo argued that this passage could not be used to support the traditional Earth-centred view of the universe at all. If we assume the universe to be as it was described by Claudius Ptolemy, the Sun's annual motion was a slow movement towards the East, so if God had commanded it to stop, the daily movement towards the West would no longer have been counteracted and as a result the day would actually have got slightly shorter rather than longer. However if we assume the universe to be as Copernicus described it, the Sun is at the centre and its rotation drives the rotation of all the planets. Thus if God had ordered the Sun to stop turning, everything would have stopped and the day would have been longer, just as the Bible describe."
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Oh, yes, only imprisoned for heresy. My mistake.
it was a house arrest