What if Galileo had put forward a very simple "theory", to "explain" the Copernican System?

Now, I'm not talking about Newton's Principia, of course, here. Nor, even, some simplified conception of Universal Gravitation. I really mean just some limited kind of lip service to Aristotle, and the Bible, in order to get the dogs of the Holy Inquisition off his back. Galileo was an empirical anarchist and a trouble maker who had a deep aversion to any and all theoretical conceptions because of the constraints they imposed upon him. But, just suppose, he had sufficient political skill to see the writing on the wall, and to try to fend off the Inquisition with some highly political lip service. Something like this: My dearest Holy Inquisition: I realize we've had our differences, and, just possibly, I may have been a trifle arrogant to so question your legitimate authority. Obviously, I realize the Bible is true, as must be the Sainted Aristotle, as is his greatest interpreter, Saint Thomas Aquinas himself. So, I now offer an explanation of the Copernican System of the Universe that is perfectly consistent with both! The fact is, the Earth is, of course the center of the universe, and that's precisely why everything falls to earth, as Aquinas and Aristotle so wisely tell us. God has appointed the Earth as the home of Man, and Man is the lord of the Universe, excepting God himself, and his Holy Angels. However, God must force man to be humble, lest Man think himself a God. So, God has appointed the Sun as the great source of heat and light in the Universe essential for all life, including the life of Man, and has set the Earth -- the home of Man -- and the other planets revolving around it, as the mathematical treatise of Copernicus so astutely shows us. Thus, Man will recognize his actual limitations, and, his dependency on God, the all highest. So, your excellencies, you can see that there is, in fact, no inconsistency or contradiction at all between the Copernican System of the Universe, and the Bible, Aristotle or Aquinas. In future, I will, of course, adhere to this view in all my writings. Q.E.D. Yours Affectionately, Galileo Now, of course, you will say, this is total nonsense. Of course it's total nonsense! All theories are total nonsense, including Newton's Principia, Darwin's theory of Evolution, and Einstein's theory of Relativity. Existence is infinitely complex, it cannot be encompassed by theory. Any theory. But, because of this overwhelming complexity, theory is essential to governments, institutions, religions and the like, in order to justify their power and wealth. No theories, no universities, no churches, no government tax revenues. Unless the authorities can make a credible case that they have all the answers -- from theory --they're out of business, quite literally. So, I think, it's perfectly possible that the Pope, and the Holy Inquisition would have accepted Galileo's offer. After all, he wasn't rocking the boat, at all, and, his ideas left them fully in charge. But, then given such a simple and powerful theory of the universe, what need have the authorities for Kepler or Newton? Indeed, why further pursue astronomical or mathematical investigations, at all? All, is well explained, by the authority of the Pope, and the genius of Galileo. The Sun is the center of the Universe, but, otherwise, Aristotle and the Bible reign supreme, for ever, and ever. Experimental investigations are suppressed, or ignored, as being pointlessly disruptive to the proven status quo. As a result, we have no scientific progess at all, indefinitely. Just incidentally, NASA is going to have an unusually good opportunity to test Einstein's special theory of Relativity using the Parker Solar Probe, in a few years. This spacecraft is expected to attain a speed of 430,000 mph, or .064% of the speed of light. Einstein's special theory of relativity would predict relativistic velocity related time dilation of about .0007 s per hour, at this speed, far larger than anything attained with a spacecraft before. So, is NASA going to use this opportunity to conclusively test the Special Theory of Relativity? No, of course not! We already know it's proven! Why waste taxpayer money? Why rock the boat? And, what if it's wrong? What would the authorities do, then, to explain things, and justify their power?