What were Galileo's theories and ideas and why did people fight against him? Why were people upset with him?

Question

For school, I am doing a debate about Galileo Galilei. I need to know:
**His theory/idea
**Why people were so upset with him
**Why he stuck to his beliefs
**Why his idea/theory is important to people today
**How his idea/theory affects people today
**Why conservative thinkers fought against him

Thanks guys!

Answer 1

Historians disagree about Galileo's role as the "founder of modern experimental science." In fact, some of them doubt that experiment, in the modern sense, played an important part at all in Galileo's scientific development. These historians maintain that Galileo's real originality lay in the way he approached scientific problems. First, Galileo reduced those problems to very simple terms on the basis of everyday experience and common-sense logic. Then he analyzed and resolved the problems according to simple mathematical descriptions. The success with which Galileo applied this technique to the analysis of physics, especially the physics of motion, opened the way for the development of modern mathematical physics.

Answer 2

The essential point of Galileo's work was that he advocated accepting as true what the evidence shows, not what the authorities claim is so.

This was a major step foward. Those who found their religious worldview challenged by the evidence simpy refused to consider it. When he observed the moons of Jupiter, for instance, some said those spots must be incects in the telescope tube. Others said - Why should we trust this glass lens rather than the holy inspired Word of God?

Many of the cardinals who opposed and persecuted Galileo were educated men who knew full well that he was correct. They did not want to oppress him. But they perceived - correctly - that once people started believing according to evidence rather than by alleged revelation, the power of the church to control them would be seriously diminished.

Their attutude was - We must preserve the authority of our "revealed truth" at all costs. That attitude is not yet gone; we still see fundies who insist that evolution theory cannot be correct - not because they have evidence to support a better theory, but because they have made up their minds in advance that if the evidence contridicts their present belief-system, they will reject the evidence rather than adjust their beliefs. My mind is made up; don't confuse me with facts. God said it, I believe it, that settles it.

Galileo is important because he showed that facts of evidence trump beliefs.

Answer 3

well this is as much as i can give you srry.....
he stated that the earth and all the planets orbit around the sun but the moon orbits the earth.
people didn t like him cuz his idea was very different from what theyre used to which is everything revolving around the earth. Thats all i can give you.......SORRY