While history has vindicated Galileo 's theories as being correct, the historical proceedings of the time were much more complicated, and rather than being solely a conflict between science and religion, it was also one of politics, methodological flaws in heliocentrism at the time, and broader tension over how the natural world was analyzed and the nature of scientific thought …show more content…
Complexities and nuances existed at the time that are less visible when viewed through a modern lens and the preconceived notions of the conflict thesis, ranging from political complications and the use of science to bolster political grievances, to the change in the nature of scientific thought, to the conflicts of religion against other means of religious thought. These examples together demonstrate some of the complications in examining science and religion, and some of the dimensions their interaction takes beyond solely being between the two and solely being one of