Why will you not change your outdated beliefs in favor of a more pragmatic theory? I understand that Galileo shattered your previously held theological and scientific beliefs, but if the new ideas makes more sense, why should you preserve the thoughts and systems of Ptolemy and Aristotle? As Galileo stated so neatly, "What do you have to say about the principal philosophers of this academy who are filled with the stubbornness of an asp and do not want to look at either the planets, the moon or the telescope, even though I have freely and deliberately offered them the opportunity a thousand times?". Your paradigms, my friends, are trapping you into a certain frame of mind and making you close-minded to other ideas. I understand you may be frightened of a new theory that could revolutionize all of society, and that you hate being proven wrong because you may have emotional attachments to your beliefs. However, you are logical professionals. Won't you at least try to look with your own eyes instead of the eyes of your authorities?
Oh, and here's a video of an old man impersonating Galileo's trial before the Holy Office:
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