Why did the church seek to silence Galileo?

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Pavlo Shandro · Answer 1 · 2018-06-12T15:54:10+0000

At the time, the church was very insistent in their belief that the earth was in the center of the universe (geocentric) when Galileo agreed with Copernicus that the sun is in the center of the universe. (heliocentric)

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