[narby]

The fact that we say the Earth revolves around the Sun makes the math easier for us from a astrological point of view.

Makes all the rocket burn calculations for space probes to comets work out real neat too....

[narby]

You mean like the con job of philosophers, like Karl Marx that have lasted for so long?

I'll answer you over here in the thread so the lurkers can watch.

Karl Marx was the founder of one of the most powerful religious faiths of all time. Communisim. The only religion I know of to have nuclear weapons.

[Doctor Stochastic]

It's far deeper than that. There is a heliocentric theory that explains why if the rotatee is farher out from the center, it rotates slower. This is not true in geocentric theory. None of the equal area or elliptic orbit rules obtain in a geecentric theory.

As a example, the moons of Jupiter obey the farther out rule in a heliocentric theory but not in a geocentric theory. All theories are not created equal.