I agree with Professor Viney, although Galileo, Copernicus, and Newton’s discoveries and theories had consequences, the knowledge we have today started from their discoveries and theories. For example from the lecture, even though Copernicus didn’t have any proof that all the planets orbited around the sun, he was on the right track. Then Galileo found the evidence that Copernicus’s heliocentric model was correct. In order to get to where we are today, we had to start somewhere, and these are the discoveries that gave us that push. I also agree that the conflict was never between the church and science, it was always about power and undermining certain authority. “For example, Giordano Bruno, an astronomer, philosopher and former Dominican
