Touted as Absolute Truths

One group of the religious looked upon the absorption with secondary causes as a deflection from contemplation of the divine Primary Cause and hence suspect, if not heretical, especially when propositions like the Copernican hypothesis, touted as absolute truths, contradicted the literal sense of the Bible.

Utopian Thought in the Western World
Frank E. Manuel

Source: Utopian Thought in the Western World