2 needs an option “What a well-studied man in the 17th century would have thought is irrelevant to whether the Church was working against science, because remaining in power by suppressing the side which doesn’t have well-studied men is just as bad as remaining in power by suppressing the side which does”.
2 needs an option “What a well-studied man in the 17th century would have thought is irrelevant to whether the Church was working against science, because remaining in power by suppressing the side which doesn’t have well-studied men is just as bad as remaining in power by suppressing the side which does”.