Thunder, Galileo was excommunicated for suggesting that the Earth was not the center of the universe. Lame? Perhaps, but literal interpretation demands the belief. Also, which version of Creation do you favor, the one day or seven day, the one where animals came before humans or the one where they came after? You like literal reading of the Bible so which is it?
Galileo was excommunicated for violating a "Roman Catholic" traditional belief. The geocentric view was originally proposed by Aristotle as a theory, though probably most of the ancient world believed it, and was officially embraced by Rome. Rome's theology is based on both their Church tradition and the Bible--never solely on the Bible. Early Christianity and Protestant Christianity is more representative of beliefs based solely on Scripture. You will not find this belief in any Protestant or early church creed. You are classic example of a skeptic whose knowledge of the scriptures is based on what other skeptics say about the scriptures rather than scholarly Bible study.
Galileo was a believer himself. Your knowledge of Galileo is also shallow. He said the following:
"I think in the first place that it is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the Holy Bible can never speak untruth�whenever its true meaning is understood." Galileo, in Drake, p. 181.
He quotes Augustine relating true reason to Scriptural truth.
"And in St. Augustine [in the seventh letter to Marcellinus] we read: 'If anyone shall set the authority of Holy Writ against clear and manifest reason, he who does this knows not what he has undertaken; for he opposes to the truth not the meaning of the Bible, which is beyond his comprehension, but rather his own interpretation; not what is in the Bible, but what he has found in himself and imagines to be there'" Ibid., p. 186.
I would say that Galileo's quote of Augustine pretty much has your own reasoning pegged as being faulty--not the Scripture.
Your imagined discrepancy on Genesis 1 and 2 is another classic example of a skeptics Biblical illiteracy. Let a good commentary help walk you through the two accounts of the one event.
Life only becomes fuzzy for those who are educated beyond their intelligence.
