There have been a concerted effort to reframe the story because it remains so embarassing to the church. Yeah it is true Gallileo was arrogant and failed at pla

There have been a concerted effort to reframe the story because it remains so embarassing to the church. Yeah it is true Gallileo was arrogant and failed at playing the politicial game. He might have avoided the conflict if he had been better at sucking up to the pope. However, the church forbade heliocentric theories up until the middle of the eighteenth century, long after Kepler and Newton. So clearly it wasn’t a question of evidence.