The Moons of Jupiter

And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker.

(Acts 14:12) NKJV

Galileo showed that Jupiter has moons. This isn’t proof of heliocentricity. He just made the religious establishment of his day look stupid for insisting, incorrectly, that everything has to orbit the Earth.

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Galileo’s Bluff

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

(2 Timothy 4:3-4) ESV

Most people believe that Galileo proved Heliocentricity. He didn’t, but he showed that the religious dogma of his day was wrong.

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