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Well you're definitely right about some protestant branches being worse.

I actually had not known tha about the Galileo case before. I'd always assumed/been told that the theory was rejected purely because of the Church's backwarness.

I was reading [the wikipedia page] about Catholicism and evolution, and I was amazed at how early on prominent clergymen were taking a "evolution is not contradictory to the faith" stance. Makes me almost proud.

Taking this back to the theoretical timleline, can we assume a world at least partially under the Church's control would/could plausibly be as technologicaly and scientifically advanced as today?