>> Galileo was given permission to write about the Copernican theory, as long as he treated it as a hypothesis
I cannot find that in Wikipedia's article about Galileo.
So why was neither Copernicus (who initial proposed the theory) or anyone else subjected to restrictions like that?
Also, it was a hypothesis that was proved to the wrong. The sun is not the centre of the universe. He was wrong to claim it had been proved it was. It was not even the best supported theory on the available evidence (there were several theories competing to replace the Ptolemaic model).
> Basically, the Church has no problem with evolution as long as everyone agrees that evolution happens after God created everything on the planet/in the universe.
How does that constrain evolution? The Universe was created a few billion years before evolution even started!
>> Galileo was given permission to write about the Copernican theory, as long as he treated it as a hypothesis
I cannot find that in Wikipedia's article about Galileo.
So why was neither Copernicus (who initial proposed the theory) or anyone else subjected to restrictions like that?
Also, it was a hypothesis that was proved to the wrong. The sun is not the centre of the universe. He was wrong to claim it had been proved it was. It was not even the best supported theory on the available evidence (there were several theories competing to replace the Ptolemaic model).
> Basically, the Church has no problem with evolution as long as everyone agrees that evolution happens after God created everything on the planet/in the universe.
How does that constrain evolution? The Universe was created a few billion years before evolution even started!