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Now, he was already dead when the Catholic Church declared him a heretic. So it was really not a big deal to him, he'd already went on to be with the Lord.
The significance, however, of the Church acknowledging that he was not a heretic (flawed, yes, heretic, no) is an important step toward the understanding that it all, science, faith, the world, the spiritual, came from God Almighty.
Oh yes, we can distort it. We can misinterpret it. We can even lie about it (with consequences).
But the reality is that God created it all and He gave us busy little minds and hands to dig and think and theorize and try to understand.
The mistake so many make is thinking that:
HERE is Science.
And HERE is Faith.
And the truth
of the matter is
that it's all ONE.
We are like the blind men examining an elephant, each feeling and determining within his own range of touch, smell, thoughts of what an elephant is. But they were all touching, smelling, theorizing about the same thing -- the elephant.
That's what we do.
We see the world from many different points of view, never realizing that we are all, Science and Faith, seeing the very same thing. Just from different angles.
Just like Copernicus saw the solar system. It was still the solar system, just from a different angle...
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