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#898419
Terry Stroud
Nope. Your understanding is wrong. Deeply and embarassingly worng... But your ability to pull shit out of your ass is stellar.
2/13/2009 11:00:41 PM
#898420
Dumbass
You realize that a geocentric universe implies that stars are orbiting us faster than the speed of light?
2/13/2009 11:02:02 PM
#898422
Argle Bargle
The universe has no center, and the earth is on the far side of the Orion arm, nowhere near the center of the galaxy. Also, how is dark energy (matter?) connected with the Copernican model?
2/13/2009 11:03:20 PM
#898423
I... what? This surely has to be a Poe, doesn't it? Perhaps as stubbornly as he rejects... well, sanity, I simply cannot accept the thought of someone ignorant enough to disagree with heliocentricism. I'm ashamed to even be related to this guy on a species level.
2/13/2009 11:04:04 PM
#898424
Terry Stroud
Are you sure the Easter Bunny theory of eggs is wrong?
As I understand it, Dark energy is used to repel chocolate off of eggs thus allowing them to be non-sticky.
This would make non-melty eggs the most common model for understanding rabbits and semi-sweet chocolates available.
2/13/2009 11:04:15 PM
#898425
Freboy
"As I understand it..."
Whenever a fundie uses those words...
2/13/2009 11:04:55 PM
#898429
Gloria
"As I understand it..."
You don't.
2/13/2009 11:10:20 PM
#898437
Headache
ICANT, is that you, Joe the Dumber?
2/13/2009 11:17:01 PM
#898441
Pule Thamex
Fundies are getting dumber by the day. Soon we they won't be able to type at all. Or it will be just liking hitting the keyboard with a spare banana. I know it is now sometimes.
To be stupid is actually a requirement in order to become a member of a fundamentalist cult.
2/13/2009 11:19:19 PM
#898443
Wottock C. Hunt
What century does ICANT (yeah, he can't, that's obvious) live in? Sheesh.
2/13/2009 11:20:54 PM
#898464
QT
Wow. So if dark energy doesn't actually exist, the sun goes round the earth? Epic fail.
2/13/2009 11:30:08 PM
#898487
Old Yeller
idiot
2/13/2009 11:38:20 PM
#898496
Alex
As I understand it, without fundie asshats we wouldn't have George Bush, Bill O'Reilly, Faux News or the Coultergeist.
2/13/2009 11:41:01 PM
#898567
Osiris
No. When Copernicus submitted his model of the solar system with the sun at the center, he used his own observations through a telescope and realized that the orbit of Venus does not match the predictions made by a geocentric system.
Thus geocentrism was replaced with the theory of heliocentrism. Dark matter could not have equated into Copernicus' model because no one at the time had any idea of dark matter.
2/14/2009 12:16:45 AM
#898595
Zoo
O_o. . . what about dark matter makes planets travel around stars? It's gravitational attraction that does that.
2/14/2009 12:31:35 AM
#898666
Gawd
Yes, I'm quite sure the church was wrong in their geocentric view. Next?
2/14/2009 1:12:10 AM
#898686
Papabear
"As I understand it without dark energy the Copernican model is falsified."
[b]That's because you don't understand it."
2/14/2009 1:18:17 AM
#898706
tracer
Pule Thamex wrote:
"Fundies are getting dumber by the day. Soon we they won't be able to type at all. Or it will be just liking hitting the keyboard with a spare banana."
Well, the banana
IS the atheist's worst nightmare, you know.
2/14/2009 1:31:59 AM
#898709
tracer
Osiris wrote:
"No. When Copernicus submitted his model of the solar system with the sun at the center, he used his own observations through a telescope and realized that the orbit of Venus does not match the predictions made by a geocentric system."
You sure you're not thinkin' of Galileo?
Copernicus never used a telescope.
2/14/2009 1:34:20 AM
#898742
Blackgem
I'm sorry? What?
For Gods sake people, we don't even need dark matter or theoretical assumptions on this one, we can work these things out using a telescope. Don't you think we'd have figured this out when we send out probes to different planets?
Really, what next, the Earth being flat?
Ah wait, people do actually belive that one.
2/14/2009 1:49:35 AM
#898752
CatAnon
Simple does not equal right, stupid.
2/14/2009 1:58:58 AM
#898769
Giveitaday
Are you sure the church was wrong in their geocentric view?
Yes. Are you so subservient to church dogma that you are not willing to discard the geocentric worldveiw, even in the face of a mountain of evidence which you yourself can personally observe?
As I understand it without dark energy the Copernican model is falsified.
Then your understanding is deeply flawed. The Copernican model predates and is not, nor was it ever, dependant of dark energy. An education is a good thing, if for no other reason than it would prevent you from once again making a fool of yourself in the future.
That would leave the earth as the center of the universe
That's a false dichotomy, even if the Copernican model was flawed then that would not make geocentrism right by default, it's not and either/or issue. On top of that none of it has anything to do with the placement of the earth in the universe.
as the simplest explanation for the practical and mathematical understanding of the universe.
And how does one arrive at that conclusion without resorting to saying "Because the bible says so!"? You have sufficiently proved that you have neither practical or mathematical of the subject.
2/14/2009 2:18:26 AM
#898795
Andreus
Dark energy has nothing to do with the Copernican model you FUCKING MORON.
2/14/2009 2:52:41 AM
#898800
Mrs. Antichrist
You understand nothing.
2/14/2009 2:56:32 AM
#898867
dg
Copernicus published his heliocentric model in 1543.
Dark energy was only even thought of around 2000.
How could Copernicus *POSSIBLY* have based his model on it????
Also, we don't actually use Copernicus's model of the solar system anymore. Kepler refined it with elliptical orbits in the 1600s. Without those, Copernicus's system was kind of shaky.
2/14/2009 4:18:37 AM
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