<a href="http://galileowaswrong.com/ ">Galileo Was Wrong!</a>
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'Galileo's renunciation of heliocentrism a year before his death.'
I can't help but notice that there seem to be quite a few people on the lunatic fringe who have information that is earthshatteringly important, so big that everyone must know... but you have to pay for it first.
"Robert A. Sungenis, Ph.D. holds advanced degrees in Theology and Religious Studies from Calamus International University, George Washington University and Westminster Theological Seminary."
If Galileo was wrong, could you explain how the seasons occur?, could you explain the climatic pattern we have?, if not SHUT UP!!. And by the way,any evidence that he renounced to this theory(how convenient), before his death?
So... do all scientists renounce their theories secretly just before they die? Apparently.
If Galileo was wrong, could you explain how the seasons occur?, could you explain the climatic pattern we have?
For IR, what I meant is not that the seasons are due entirely to the roation of the earth round the sun. Only that, as this guys claim, the earth is still and fixed, the patterns we have to determine seasons and climatic occurrences, couldn´t be properly explained. Of course, I´m aware that there are many variations, I was just going to the weakest point. Another point is that all the calculi that NASA had to do for his missions in the space would have failed in a very catastrophic way.
His point is that we have no physical theory which would give us a scientific reason to dismiss geocentrism. I've read dialogs he had with Ph. Ds in physics and the only point on which they disagree with him (although I do not know how hard a hit it is) is wether the earth would still spin on its axis or not.ego centrism.
renouncing stuff under threat of "heresy" (and the following torture/death) by the INQUISITION can't really be considered all that admissible.
All motion is relative to some frame of reference. You can say that a car is moving down the fixed road, or that the road is moving under the fixed car. Mathematically, either is valid. The same is true with the earth. The planets can be described relative to a fixed sun or a fixed earth. But if you choose the latter, the law of gravity no longer works. And the law of gravity is easily proved by the motion of satellites. Furthermore, a fixed earth won't explain stellar parallax unless you assume the stars are wobbling back and forth once a year.
If humans had a sensory organ designed solely for detecting bullshit I suspect that the effects of looking at that page would have much the same effects on it that staring directly at the sun tends to have on peoples eyes, only one of the functions of my brain is bullshit detecting and just the front page of that me in some serious pain.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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