This is what you're trying to argue; this is circular. Also, no, it isn't.
It absolutely, positively is. There is no possible way that one can look at the evidence of the universe and come to the conclusion that the christian god is the one true god. Or the Islamic god, or the Greek gods etc. I will go ahead and make the generous presumption that you are Christian (and correct me if I'm wrong, even if you're atheist, my argument will still hold true). Why are you Christian? What evidence outside of the Bible led you to believe that Yahweh is the one true god? I can already tell you that any "evidence" you claim to indicate the handiwork of an invisible sky wizard is fallacious, incorrect and unscientific. Believing in a god is not scientific because there is currently no supporting evidence for it and you also cannot prove god's existence (or if you can, nobody knows how). If sometime in the future credible evidence arises that a god exists, I will accept it, but there is currently nothing to suggest such a thing. That is why all religion is inherently unscientific. When people allow themselves to think in unscientific terms, it fosters unscientific mindsets that will actively reject any notion that threatens one's way of thinking regardless of the evidence. We can see this symptom in the uneducated religious political lobby in America.
You claim there is a god. Prove it. Since you believe that science and religion are not opposed, then you should have no problem proving your claims.
For the thousandth time, I'm not defending censorship, I'm saying that because this was a political dispute, it doesn't say anything about science and religion.
Okay, that's fine.
They didn't charge him with heresy.
Yes they did!!! Holy shit yes they did! I really don't understand why you continue to say such things.
We pronounce, judge, and declare, that you, the said Galileo… have rendered yourself vehemently suspected by this Holy Office of heresy
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“We order that by a public edict the book of Dialogues of Galileo Galilei be prohibited, and We condemn thee to the prison of this Holy Office during Our will and pleasure; and as a salutary penance We enjoin on thee that for the space of three years thou shalt recite once a week the Seven Penitential Psalms.”
Keep in mind Galileo was an old man who didn't want to leave his house or travel.
Oh please. Do not even go there. Galileo most certainly would have preferred not to be under house arrest for the rest of his life. This is such a ridiculous and inane proposition.
but you should, because if they would have done the same thing, then clearly this wasn't about religion).
No, what other rulers have done is absolutely irrelevant. You cannot draw any logical correlation to the motives of the Church and what other, completely separate entities have done in the past.
he came up on trial because he published a book they said he didn't have permission to publish.
No. Galileo had permission to publish his book Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems so long as he agreed to not explicitly advocate heliocentricism. What happened is that the defender of geocentricism in his book often made a fool of himself because of his poorly reasoned arguments and logical errors. According to Wikipedia, "his portrayal of Simplicio made Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems appear as an advocacy book: an attack on Aristotelian geocentrism and defense of the Copernican theory." This was the nail in the coffin, this was what pissed the Pope off. The facts are clear, the Pope did NOT want ANYONE to advocate heliocentricism because he felt it posed a direct threat to what the Bible taught.
Then, after he published his book and made the crime of unintentionally making it seem he was advocating for heliocentricism, the church found him guilty of heresy and sentenced him to home imprisonment, banned any of his books, and banned any future advocacy of heliocentricism.
Let me just barrage you with a slew of quotes from Galileo's Wikipedia article.
Religious opposition to heliocentrism arose from Biblical references such as Psalm 93:1, 96:10, and 1 Chronicles 16:30 include text stating that "the world is firmly established, it cannot be moved." In the same manner, Psalm 104:5 says, "the Lord set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved."
Galileo defended heliocentrism, and in December 1613 the Grand Duchess Christina of Florence confronted one of Galileo's friends and followers, Benedetto Castelli, with biblical objections to the motion of the earth. According to Maurice Finocchiaro this was done in a friendly and gracious manner, out of curiosity. Prompted by this incident, Galileo wrote a letter to Castelli in which he argued that heliocentrism was actually not contrary to biblical texts, and that the bible was an authority on faith and morals, not on science. This letter was not published, but circulated widely.[65]
In February 1616, an Inquisitorial commission declared heliocentrism to be "foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it explicitly contradicts in many places the sense of Holy Scripture." The Inquisition found that the idea of the Earth's movement "receives the same judgement in philosophy and... in regard to theological truth it is at least erroneous in faith"
Galileo was found "vehemently suspect of heresy", namely of having held the opinions that the Sun lies motionless at the centre of the universe, that the Earth is not at its centre and moves, and that one may hold and defend an opinion as probable after it has been declared contrary to Holy Scripture. He was required to "abjure, curse and detest" those opinions.[81]