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Which of the following correctly characterizes the response of various religious perspectives to Nicolaus Copernicus's hypothesis?


A) The Catholic Church declared Copernicus a heretic, while Protestant faiths believed that the hypothesis had no bearing on Christian teaching.
B) Protestant clerics rejected Copernicus, while Catholics embraced the interpretation as a new foundation for the heavens.
C) Protestants rejected Copernicus's idea that the earth moved, while the Catholic Church largely overlooked his theory until declaring the hypothesis false in the seventeenth century.
D) Lutheran and Catholic officials rejected Copernicus's hypothesis as heretical to a literal interpretation of Scripture, while Protestants recognized a more modern approach to truth and adopted it.

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