It’s easy to take a digital, binary view of the 17th century Church vs. Galileo conflict: Galileo right, Pope Urban VIII wrong. But the issue is more nuanced, and Galileo’s interaction with church ...

Few lies so excite secular souls as the Galileo Incident. But the historical reality of the situation is so completely different than the popular version of the story as to make one think we were ...

Aside from his many contributions to the evolution of modern science, Galileo Galilei is also famous for defying the 17th century Catholic church. He's lionized for advocating a heliocentric view of ...

Did Galileo Galilei really say all those terrible things that the Vatican said he did in his famous 1613 letter about a sun-centered solar system — and in saying so, violate church doctrine? Or did ...

Although it gets far more media attention in the United States, the conflict between Darwinism and Creationism is not as important in the history of opposition between religion and science as that ...

This year marks the International Year of Astronomy, 12 months that commemorate the 400th anniversary of the first recorded astronomical observations with a telescope by Galileo Galilei, and the ...

Galileo was convicted of a strong suspicion of heresy. Although "was never formally charged with heresy" is technically true, it could be a tad misleading as to what happened. Galileo didn't really ...