Did the church make mistakes in the condemnation of Copernicus and Galileo’s ideas? Yes. However it’s crucial to note that by this time the Catholic Church had become infiltrated and infused with humanistic, Ptolemy elements and Aristotelian physics (such as geocentric theory). So if there’s anyone to blame for the church’s scientific shortcomings during this era- it’s the minds of classical antiquity (though they were important and groundbreaking for their time). It’s also worth noting that Copernicus and Galileo were highly religious themselves and believed that their scientific revolutions were in perfect harmony with true biblical Christianity- not the distorted humanism of the Papacy, which had been established and flourished on the desire for wealth and power. It wasn’t until the Reformation had broken this mindset that the era had become ripe for the scientific revolution. Did the Renaissance play a part in the birth of modern science? Of course. But to say that this expansion on Greek tradition would have been a sufficient catalyst for the Scientific Revolution is ill conceived (in my opinion of course).