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Did catholic church believe that earth was centre of universe?
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Yes, they believed the Ptolemiac theory, not the Copernican. They persecuted Galileo Galileo for stating otherwise, Circa 1616. This was because Scripture (as Ecclesiates 1:5) states the world is center not the Sun. And Scripture being the word of God, could not be wrong
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