>>7620480>gay peopleCatholics have nothing against gay people. They just insist on biological marriages.
>>7620482>Tell that to GalileoGeoheliocentrism > Heliocentrism with the observational evidence (no parallax of the stars) they had at the time and the mathematics was identical. Galileo got what was coming to him for trying to authoritatively declare doctrine based solely on what theory he personally liked better.
>countless people burned and killed for embracing the reformationThe 'reformation' was a catastrophe for Europe and did nothing to advance science or society. All the stupidity involving Christianity has come from protestantism. Hell, it was the reformation protestants, not Catholics, that rejected teaching the Copernican system with cries of sola scriptura.
>>7620497>Galileo's theory Copernicus' theory. Galileo's theory was that the movement of earth around the sun caused the tides and he FAKED his numbers to make his incorrect theory look right. Galileo was the father of scientific fraud and nothing more.
>He thought about orbits as perfect circles No, there were still epicycles but smaller and "easier" to use.
>platonic, and generally, Greek philosophy.Blame the right guy. It was Aristotle that fucked up science and medicine for 1500+ years by guessing shit without checking (he even thought women had less teeth than men) and then posing it as infallible truths of the universe (which still plagues the minds of popsci readers today).
>If you want to blame any dogma as to why the scientific revolution was not brought earlier, blame philosophy.What was holding back the scientific revolution wasn't philosophy but the lack of adequate mathematics to describe the world. People overestimate how old math is. Symbolic Arithmetic and Algebra are both scarcely older than early Calculus. Even freshman year Vector Calculus is younger than the American Civil War.
Philosophy in hindsight is the best you can do without math.
