Galileo Was Wrong Vol. 3: The Church Was Right: The Evidence from Church History, 12th ed.

Galileo Was Wrong Vol. 3: The Church Was Right: The Evidence from Church History, 12th ed. (Hardcover, Color)

Galileo Was Wrong is a detailed and comprehensive treatment of the scientific evidence for geocentrism, the position that the Earth stands immobile at the center of the universe. Drawing on physics, astrophysics, astronomy, and other sciences, it shows that the conflict between Galileo and the Catholic Church was far more than a difference of opinion over how to read Scripture.

Scientific evidence gathered in the last hundred years, none of it available in Galileo's day, indicates that the Church's position on the immobility of the Earth is not only scientifically defensible but gives the most stable model of the universe and the one that best answers the evidence we actually see in the cosmos.

Readers agree.

"There exists no better exposition of the history and science of geocentrism. Very highly recommended and a must for all those interested in the issues surrounding geocentrism today" (Gerardus Bouw, Ph.D., Astronomy)

"In their over 700-page book, Drs. Sungenis and Bennett make a convincing case for the special and central position of the earth in the cosmos" (Vincent Schmithorst, Ph.D., Physics)

"Galileo Was Wrong is a work of monumental proportion which ranks, in my opinion, on a par with the meticulous observations of the Danish astronomer, Tycho Brahe, and the tireless efforts of Walter van der Kamp" (Neville Jones, Ph.D., Physics)

"In their new book, Sungenis and Bennett take no prisoners...Now that the Enlightenment is over, it was inevitable that the system upon which it was based should come in for the powerful critique which Sungenis and Bennett provide. Not inevitable, however, was the brilliant way they provide it" (E. Michael Jones, Ph.D., ed. Culture Wars)

"Sungenis and Bennett examine the anomalies that arise from the Copernican model...A must read for those who can set aside prejudices and a priori assumptions" (Joseph Strada, Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering)

"The book Galileo Was Wrong forcefully addresses the history, science, theological, philosophical, and worldview implications of our place in the universe" (Russell T. Arndts, Ph.D., Chemistry, LSU)

"It is with pleasure that I remand this volume into the hands of the reader" (Martin Selbrede, Chief Scientist, Unipixel)

"Robert Sungenis and Robert Bennett have done a great service to science and to men of good will. Those who see the universe as the handiwork of the benevolent God need no longer be subservient to fairy tales" (Anonymous, Ph.D., MIT)

"Galileo Was Wrong is a model for the kind of scholarship we need today -- intellectual understanding not as an end in itself, but as a commitment to reality, infused with moral passion, love for the earth, common sense and philosophical sensitivity" (Caryl Johnston, M. Ed., Jefferson Medical College)

Galileo Was Wrong: The Church Was Right is among the most unusual and penetrating books you will ever read. Now complete in Volumes I and II, Robert Sungenis and Robert Bennett take you on a tour of science and history you might not have believed possible until you saw it laid out in detail. Has modern science convinced us of something it cannot prove and that is in fact false? Were the Fathers, the medievals, and the popes and cardinals of the seventeenth century right to hold, on a face-value reading of Scripture, that the Earth stands still at the center of the universe? Volume I documents how modern science has shown the Earth to be motionless in space at the center of the cosmos, while keeping those facts largely out of our schools. Volume II shows how deeply the seventeenth-century popes were involved in condemning heliocentrism, guiding the process step by step and finally judging it formally heretical, and it presents the most detailed exegesis on the subject offered to the public, along with the consensus of the Church Fathers and medieval theologians. It covers the statements and teachings of Gregory XVI, Benedict XIV, Pius VII, Leo XIII, Benedict XV, the Council of Trent, Vatican I, and Vatican II, with a special section on John Paul II's reexamination of the Galileo case. Come with an open mind. Whatever you conclude about the science, the deepest thing this study offers is a closer trust in God, his Church, and his Word.