Evolution v Creationism

[Adrian II]

The conflict was well rooted within the Papacy, for that reason the Pope was happy so long as Galileo kept his ideas away from the church, which is not that unreasonable.

Not unreasonable?

It would have been reasonable if the Church had kept away from Galeleo Galilei. But they had pestered him since 1615, threatened him with torture and death like they had imposed on Giordano Bruno only thiry-odd years before.

It was power politics indeed, the weight of the institution was cast against an individual at the cost of science, conscience and freedom of expression. How profoundly silly to try and blame that charade on Galileo instead of on the kangaroos, and this nearly four hundred years after the fact.

Phooy!