“Thank God that the earth is NOT moving!!”
We can actually measure the movement directly.
“The Biblical geocentric model of the universe is called WYSIWYG — What you see is what you get...True science is supposed to be based on observation. We see the array of stars wheeling around the earth approximately daily, and we motorize our telescopes to follow their steady motion. We see the sun rising and setting daily. We see the planets doing roughly the same thing, and we see the moon following them on a somewhat different schedule, all revolving around the earth as our eyes testify.”
Yes, but when we say ‘repeatable observations’ for science we mean ALL of the observations. So the part of science that tells us nothing can move faster than light has to be true in our model of the Earth, too. And the distance of some stars (and galaxies) we see would require them to travel in excess of light speed to get around the Earth in 23 hours, 58 minutes, or so.
Also, we observe that the sun takes 24 hours to circle the Earth. So either it’s got a different force moving it, OR the Earth is orbiting around the sun, just enough that we have to turn a tiny bit farther for it to go from sun-overhead back to sun-overhead.
Also, the length of our day is 86,400 seconds plus or minus 2-5 milliseconds each day. On average. Variations in our spin make a LOT more sense, and are easier to explain, than variations in the motion of everything else in the universe, but at the exact same variation…
“There is no justification at all from what we observe to arbitrarily assume the stars to be fixed and the earth rotating.”
It’s not arbitrary.
Seriously, open a textbook, they not only say ‘The Earth Spins,’ they also list ‘And this is how we know.’
“The beauty of geocentricity is that what you see is what you get!”
That’s not beauty. That’s just straight up laziness.
It also tells us that the Earth is flat, but then we have to explain time zones.
“It is a simple and readily understandable scenario for those who are willing to believe what their eyes tell them, and make the mental transition back to the instinctive reference frame of a stationary earth.”
G’head with your lazy self, then. Just don’t pretend that you have superiority in either morality or authenticity.
