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To: GodGunsGuts

Still fighting losing battles against the dead then I see.

Nobody who was Pagan made the Catholic Church decide that “and HE set the foundations of the Earth so that it should not be moved forever” meant that the Sun orbited the Earth.


5 posted on 07/09/2009 6:36:45 PM PDT by allmendream ("Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?")
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To: allmendream

==Nobody who was Pagan made the Catholic Church decide that “and HE set the foundations of the Earth so that it should not be moved forever” meant that the Sun orbited the Earth.

It was the scientific establishment of Galileo’s day—not the theologians—who fought the hardest to get the Pope to preserve the pagan geocentric model of Aristotle/Ptolemy. Indeed, the top theologian of Galileo’s day thought his heliocentric model made “excellent good sense.” Unfortunately, the Catholic Church was swayed by the Aristotelian scientific establishment (who hated Galileo)....and the rest, as they say, is history.

As for the Bible verse you are alluding to, there is no reason to assume that it means that the Earth does not move. For instance, the foundation of a locomotive does not move, and yet it sets the course of the locomotive that moves on top of it.

Likewise, Psalm 16:8 says “I have set the LORD always before me; Because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved.” Does that mean the those who set the LORD always before them never physically move? Please!


8 posted on 07/09/2009 7:25:54 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: allmendream

Amazingly, you claim to be a Christian!

Yet you seem unable to understand the nature od God’s geocentricity. The fact that Earth was the point of origin of the expansion of the universe is in no way an impediment to the structure of our solar system, or of the cosmos in general. Einstein made that point quite well, but you seem to be frozen in fear of reality, and unable to read his explanation.

But you still want to feel sciencey.


15 posted on 07/09/2009 7:56:06 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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