Post by wrtlprnft » Wed Feb 25, 2009 6:39 pm

I don't see any harrassment against the geocentric view in this thread (maybe Phytotron's post, but I wouldn't take that too seriously in any case).



I think Galileo was smart enough not to run around the street exclaiming that the Bible was rubbish. He was just too publically visible and raised the open question, “if the earth really revolves around the sun (which from my standpoint is very likely), how does that fit with the bible?”, and the church rightly thought that this might be bad for their status and power.



I'm pretty sure Galileo wouldn't have denied a plausible explanation for both (IIRC he came up with one as well), but what the church did (if their actions were god-directed in any way at all, which I doubt, whether what happened >2000 years ago was genuine or not) definitely suggests the covering-up of some mistake they made.



I for myself am pretty convinced the heliocentric view is correct (well, not that the earth revolves around the sun, they rather rotate around some common point in between, albeit quite close to the sun's core). We have successfully launched probes to mars and venus and even some other planets (the outermost being almost by accident), and all calculations based on this view have been correct. From a geocentric standpoint mars and friends would have some very interesting trajectories.



sinewav is correct, though. As long as noone forcefully wants me to believe in the geocentric system or that the earth is a cucumber I don't care.

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