Why were the theories Copernicus and Galileo a challenge?
The big problem was that Copernicus and Gallileo proved that the Earth revolved around the Sun.The prevailing view was that the Earth was the centre of the Universe, and the Sun therefore revolved around the Earth. If the Copernicus/Gallileo theory was accepted, it would directly contradict the Bible, which was the word of God.In Joshua 10:14, Joshua prays to God to stop the Sun in the sky so Joshua can complete his victory over the Amorites in one day. This God does. If Copernicus and Gallileo were right, there was no way God could have stopped the Sun in the sky, as, according to them,its not the Sun that moves,but the Earth.That would make the passage in the Bible untrue, and if the Church was going to admit that one passage in the Bible was untrue, then it was admitting that any or all parts of the Bible could be untrue, and that would destroy the power of the Church. So, their works were declared as heresy, and suppressed. However, as Copernicus lived in Poland, under the protecti
