Add Aristotle. Galileo’s problem wasn’t with the Scriptures - Genesis is utterly vague on the subject - but with the Church’s adoption of Aristotle as the source of secular knowledge.
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An unholy brew of classical nonsense from across the Mediterranean, blended and delivered courtesy of old Uncle Albertus.
Some of Gal’s troubles were purely scriptural, though; most obviously, the Joshua X argument.
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