I think we might both be misunderstanding each other? I thought your post was implying that the most important thing was that Galileo’s theory was empirically confirmed and the church’s falsified, I then intended to imply that someone could have a correct theory through blind luck while still being unscientific/irrational. (I don’t know enough relevant history to have much of an opinion on the specific case of Galileo, I’m just pointing out the meta-level rule.)
I think we might both be misunderstanding each other? I thought your post was implying that the most important thing was that Galileo’s theory was empirically confirmed and the church’s falsified, I then intended to imply that someone could have a correct theory through blind luck while still being unscientific/irrational. (I don’t know enough relevant history to have much of an opinion on the specific case of Galileo, I’m just pointing out the meta-level rule.)