To: those who believe that the sun rotates around the earth

[rayneinspain]

Originally Posted by yeshuasavedme

isolation of a part of a sentence just to take it out of context for mockery is not intellectual debate, but shows your childishness.

Does brain cleansing entail depleting any sense of humor people may have possessed at one time?

Honestly, the complete lack of humor present in some of the devout is another testament to not handing over one's brain to dogma.

With all of the below-the-belt attacks I've seen from your end (and the preschooler grasp of the cosmos), you're really one to talk about childishness.

[Astron1000]

Oh, and thank you YSM for bringing up the Antikythera mechanism. It is a brilliantly conceived and executed piece of astronomical computing based on the Greek Ptolomaic (geocentric) system of astronomy.

A system that approximates (very well) the real motions of the sun, moon and planets. But it is not accurate.

That's why it was replaced by the Keplerian heliocentric system.

[Lamplight]

Originally Posted by yeshuasavedme

I know Him who wrote it. He adopted me into His Living Spirit/Christ.
Before He gave me second birth of Spirit I was totally confused by the so called science taught in the public schools, and the constant contradictions, but when I met Him, He cleared up the confusion...and has been always doing so, for the last forty years.

So you met God in the person? How do you know it was God?

[rifleman]

Originally Posted by Astron1000

Oh, and thank you YSM for bringing up the Antikythera mechanism. It is a brilliantly conceived and executed piece of astronomical computing based on the Greek Ptolomaic (geocentric) system of astronomy.

A system that approximates (very well) the real motions of the sun, moon and planets. But it is not accurate.

That's why it was replaced by the Keplerian heliocentric system.

You know, A1000, when you use such really big words and phrases, it causes the very confusion YSM talks about experiencing in her earlier life. The experiences that made her jump ship onto the Christian lifeboat. She requires very simple and easily understood answers, and places them above all else simply because she can understand them.

This approach, if she were the Totalitarian Queen, would have us all staring at black and white TVs (at best), tube-type radios and Model T automobiles. All quite simple and easy to understand so let's stop there, and arrest the progress of scientific curiosity and understanding, shall we?

The early attempts to create both a mathematical and a physical model of a geocentric galaxy were confounded by excessive and unmanageable complexity. The later, simpler Keplerian model was so obvious and logical (not to mention observable in real life...) that it immediately took precedence.

Read this and weep.

Ptolemy's model (http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/~rfitzp/syntaxis/syntaxis/node4.html - broken link)