Did the Church Actually Hate Copernicus? | Adam Ruins Everything 

This really misrepresents Galileo pretty much as badly as it thinks everyone else misrepresents Copernucus. The Church's dislike of Galileo had much more to do with him openly insulting them than it had to do with science. And even then, his punishment was just house arrest, not torture or execution or anything people associate with blasphemy.

Y'know, i'm Polish and this is the first time i ever heard that Copernicus was "hated by church", I didn't know people actually believed that.

Of course, it is also important to remember that Galileo was on good terms with the pope, even after he began publishing his astronomical papers. To paraphase a quote from the pope, "The bible teaches how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go."

I thought Copernicus published his book on his deathbed? That's what I was taught in class

Actually, Galileo was supported by the church too until he wrote a book where it had a character based on the pope which made fun of him during a time of political tension within the church, so he reacted to that.

Most people think this about Galileo, not Copernicus.

Priest: Your Holiness! Capernicus' new book says that Earth actually revolves around the sun! Pope: Who cares?! I'm trying to figure out the miracle of how Jesus turned water into wine! Me: This guy's asking the real questions here...

Actually five bishops blessed Copernicus' thesis before they banned it and established own monastery to study Copernicus' observations. And while Galileo was investigating this, he just said that Copu was right in all time. As a result, Galileo was promoted to head of the Papal Academy of Sciences. Unfortunately, times were not favorable for Galileo. (source: The Story of God, With Morgan Freeman by National Geographic)

Two points missed, Copernicus delayed publishing the book until he was on his death-bed, and he said he wasn't saying the sun was literally the centre, just that this approach made calculating orbits much easier.

But the real question is *Did Trapp hate Pat?*

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Very interesting! I'm from Poland and I knew that initially Catholic Church was not opposed to the scientific discoveries of the renaissance, but in fact contributed and supported these discoveries in many ways. What I didn't know is that the Protestant Reformers were initially so anti-science (though I appreciate their contribution to enlightenment and capitalism later on!)

That is almost criminally oversimplified

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Why do I think that the narrator is a box trying to sell me insurance or a sad middle aged man with a scientist father in law making a pitch about apples

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"Actually" the real problem the church had with Galileo is that they hired him to write an objective review on 2 opposing scientific theories but instead Galileo wrote a completely biased paper that included an insult to the pope. Also Galileo had no real evidence to back up his theories which even his scientific peers at the time called him out on the bogus evidence he presented.

'Who cares? I'm trying to figure out the miracle of how Jesus turned water into wine' me when i overthink

They're really exaggerating how misinformed we are about him

I love this show; they correct themselves, they do lots of fact checking, and has experts on the show to back it up. Plus, the fact that it’s funny makes it easier to listen to and enjoy it.

Thanks for it, Adam.

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Actually, Adam and College Humor got a lot wrong. Yes, Copernicus worked for the church his adult life and was a clergyman. Yes, he was a Catholic Church bureaucrat. Yes, the leaders of the Protestant movement rejected his teaching on astronomy, that was the reason that some cardinals and the pope liked him. They wanted to use his ideas to undermine the Lutheran idea that the faith should be determined by the Bible alone. The church gave Copernicus money, published the book, and the pope allowed Copernicus to dedicate the book to him. They pushed him to publish earlier, but he was so afraid that he waited until he was about to die to publish. Not exactly heroic. Great scientists are frequently cowards who delay the publication of their own work. Frequently their fears are exaggerated. Darwin and Newton were much the same. Scientific observation at the time of Copernicus did not support the idea that the earth orbited the sun. They could not observe a parallax shift in the stars as the earth orbited the sun. This is why Aristotle and ancient scientists rejected the theory that the earth orbited the sun. It is also the reason that renaissance and early modern scientists rejected the same theory. It was not until hundreds of years later that we could measure the parallax shift. So the theory of Copernicus gained a hearing largely because it was useful to one side in a religious fight, not because the evidence supported it. By the time of Gallello, there was an anti-Christian movement in Italy that supported the Copernican theory. Furthermore, time had shown that the original justification for the theory was false. The pope and several cardinals had thought Copernicus would wreck the Protestant Reformation. Obviously, the Protestant reformation survived. Through all this the Catholic Church carefully avoided taking a doctrinal position on the scientific issue. Sure they tried people for heresy for supporting the Copernican theory, but those were simply administrative mistakes. Thus the Catholic Church remains infallible on doctrine.

I love this video its super fun and helpful

Funny how Galileo is rarely portrayed as the jerk he really was. Or how he actually got in trouble with the Church

Oh no, copernicus my most beloved childhood hero. How will we go on.

and every Catholic School I have had experience with (both as a teacher, and student), teaches this. Its only been a shock to people I know who already do not like or know anything about Catholic Church history. He was a priest, for cryin' out loud.

I'm really tempted to send this to my pastor. He made a side comment about the church condemning Copernicus, but it was a minor detail of a presentation he gave. I would have mentioned it when he opened up for questions and comments, but at my church, there are so many people who are highly opinionated. I'm glad that my pastor allows people to question him, and not only that, but he also allows people to correct him on misinformation.

Its a nice surprise that you make a video about a historic figure from this part of the world soo thank you very much, we finally feel included, thus so many polish people commenting this video, enjoy the discussion in polish xd + I just wanted to mention that Copernicus and I come form the same town. Seriously.

Mikołaj Kopernik!

Everyone knows the earth is really a self-expanding algorithm in a complex interdimensional simulation. We are all NPCs in some space god's game of The Sims.

Love this series

Never knew this THX Adam

copernicus? wasn't that a horse in yugioh?

“Please take out your textbook, and throw it in the fire.” Words we all wish to hear

Nice video

These animated Adam ruins clips are addictive.

Is that the voice of Jerry from rick and morty?

Adam forgot to tell you that fidget spinners are made after Copernicus’s first model. The world is fidget spinner shaped. Keep asking questions.

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From this point, I think Adam can single handedly alter the course of history. He's boggling my mind!

You should do Adam Ruins Mars Bars

I've always had a hard time figuring out how this myth even started. Even if, for some reason, they found it doctorinally vexing, wouldn't someone just say "The Earth revolves around the Sun, and so too must the people of Earth revolve around the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost"?

Me: Writes a 35 page essay my teacher assigned and turning it in at 12:01 The Teacher: 1:05

Wow I feel so much smarter without actually having to substantially inform myself about anything... thanks, guys!

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Literally learned about this last week.... couldn’t have made the video a week early smh....

This was narrated in part by the guy who voices the box in the Progressive insurance commercials.

I guess with Rick and Morty on a hiatus, the voice of Jerry has time for this show!

2:19... Is that... *HALO THEME SONG?!*

Did you just create a RU-vid style sub-series to your show? Niice

I like how hate or negative issues attract attention more than positive things or compromise

IM TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THE MIRACLE OF HOW JESUS TURNED WATER INTO WINE!

Awesome ... until the Galileo part ... there's even more ridiculous myths surrounding that fellow

I showed this to my history teacher, I then got sent home for it

The theme for this is good

So… As usual, Lutheranians screwed everything

Greetings from Toruń to the hometown of Copernicus ^^

Glad I came here after seeing the ~1.5 min version of this. That one leaves you very confused. This one is far better.

Is the person who speaks to adam the voice actor of Jerry

That’s jerry from rick and morty

Yep, that’s what us Catholics do.... *HISSING LIKE A VAMPIRE*

Gotta love how Jerry Smith's voice actor from Rick and Morty is in this.

This is such a simplified version of history.

wait, so the answer is still...yes? what exactly was ruined here?

But his name was: ,,Mikołaj" 😓

“Please take out your textbook and throw it in the fire” Why isn’t this done in modern-day schools again?

The voice of the announcer guy sounds exactly like Jerry from Rick and Morty. Is that the same guy doing this?? Btw love the episode.

Julius II : "Oh he dedictate for me? So lovely"" history annedoct fun fact I search that since a while think Adam!

0.37 he should’ve said “okay boomer”

Yes I love these

Just a Pole proud of copernicus passes by.

Should’ve given Copernicus a Polish accent.

Is it just me who thinks that americans are lied to when it comes to history? We don't have that problem in Poland. Do americans even know what country Copernicus was from?

As a person who originated from one of the towns Copernicus did a lot of his research in, and frequented the museum dedicated to him, never once have I heard anything about the church.

You had the second "Renaissance" good

Yup, many scientists wanted to discover more about god's creation. So religion and science worked together

When is he gonna do one on 'Ancient Historical Sites' that aren't real? 'Adam Ruins Ruins' has got to be in the works.. Or one on Neo-Paganism? 'Adam Ruins Runes'?

I'M LEARNING SO MUCH.

Seems like Adam is the only one keeping the channel alive...

*The POPE?!!??!*

So money was the reason for heresy.

That jingle at the end sounds like 1-800-Cheerios.

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"I am trying to figure out how Jesus turned water into wine" --- Pope knew what was important

Just to sum it up: the thing you have heard about the church rejecting copernicus theory is false but also true but definitely not whilst it still is true at the end.

I think the reason why the church was so interested in astronomy was because it says God put the heavenly bodies to mark the seasons and that was a major impact in the determination of the deterministic view of nature that science views seeing the universe as a clock

It bugged me so much why I recognized that other narration voice but couldn't put my finger on it.

T F.W. you do history and they just gave catholics some British accents and the Protestants German

So, Neil DeGrasse's video was kind of inaccurate? Wow, he might be wrong at the point of earth being spherical too. ( Relax, I'm not a flat earther. I believe earth is cubical )

I love how Jerry is the narrator

Is that jerry smith's voice actor in the backround (i know its him cuz i have seen rick and morty dont belive me but the voice of jerry from rick and morty and the voice from this side by side)(im talking about the guy who said burnt what ever his name is)

At first I thought the video was going to be about the fact that Copernicus was not the first person to discover that the earth revolves around the sun. It was actually Islamic scholars like 100s of years before him.

So yea the catholic church did hate him, only a little later than first presented it the video

So much has been taken from one source, I'm beginning to think the video is actually just secretly an advertisement for Mano Singham's December 2007 article in Physics Today, somehow.

Galileo was punished for two things. First, the Pope requested Galileo publish his works only as a theory, alongside geocentric theory, due to the ongoing Protestant Reformation which was using the Church's tolerance of heliocentric theory as a line of attack against them (The Pope at the time and Galileo were actually friends). Galileo refused to do this. Galileo then published his work in the form of a play where he called the Pope an idiot. In a time when the Catholic Church was literally fighting for its existence against Protestant groups trying to replace them, it is understandable that the Catholic Church went after Galileo, if not right. That said, the trial of Galileo was often extremely mischaracterized. Despite all the pretty artwork showing him standing trial in a huge room with hundreds of witnesses, his actual trial was in a room with about 5 others, where he recanted and was sentenced to indefinite house arrest. House arrest where he was allowed to continue to his studies and experiments, and from where he even published his best work (and most accurate) on astronomy. And yet today Galileo continues to be used, especially by Protestants to try to showcase how "intolerant" the Church is of science. Despite the fact that without the Catholic Church we would have no University for all these people to criticize from.

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