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The Conflict thesis suggests that science and religion have always been in conflict. The Galileo affair is commonly cited to support the conflict thesis, suggesting Galileo was imprisoned by the Catholic Church for his scientific observations supporting Copernican heliocentrism yet contradicting the Church's dogma.[1] However, the situation was far more nuanced. Galileo's telescopic observations, such as his observation of the phases of Venus, were fully consistent with Tycho Brahe's geocentric model which predicted that the planets, with the exception of the Earth, circled the sun, and the sun circled the Earth.[2]