CLIP: The Earth & The Sun
In 1992 Pope John Paul II officially apologized for his church's mistreatment of Galileo. The church had condemned the pioneering astronomer for teaching that the Earth revolved around the sun.
The apology took over 450 years.
This clip from the beginning of The God Who Wasn't There uses Christianity's scientific blunder to introduce another idea: Is the religion stubbornly engaging in a historical blunder of equal scale?
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