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To: Fester Chugabrew

"From, where I sitting the sun still travels around the earth. Where are you? In outer space?"




Oh, my goodness! This must be archived for posterity and brought out in any thread where you are a participant.

Listen closely, Mr. Chugabrew. The sun is the central object in our solar system. The earth is in orbit around the sun. The earth also rotates on a slightly inclined axis approximately every 24 hours.

If you are stationary on the earth, the sun will appear to you to rise and set. That is an illusion created by the rotation of the earth.

Our moon, on the other hand, DOES orbit the earth, on a cycle of roughly 28 days.

I hope that helps you understand a bit better.


557 posted on 01/04/2006 12:41:18 PM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: MineralMan
The sun is the central object in our solar system.

When viewed from a certain perspective, yes it is. As I said, from where I am sitting, the sun moves across the sky. In so saying I am not lying. Just stating the simple truth as things appear. When I wake up in the morning and see a beautiful sunrise, I am not inclined to engage the scientifically correct version of my observation, and most people would understand what I was talking about. In case the notion has escaped you, the biblical texts were written for an audience that resides on planet Earth, for whom the sun will, unless one is stationed in outer space, always rise and set.

564 posted on 01/04/2006 12:50:09 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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To: RadioAstronomer

Do we observe the same portion of lunar surface today that was available for observation by people in the 1st Century?


567 posted on 01/04/2006 12:55:35 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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To: MineralMan
The sun is the central object in our solar system. The earth is in orbit around the sun. The earth also rotates on a slightly inclined axis approximately every 24 hours.

You Dogmatic Galileoist. Galileolism is just a religion for atheists who want to deny God, and the Truth of His Scriptures. Galileolism is just a theory; but the God given truth of geocentrism is also a theory with scientific evidence.

The fact that Dogmatic Galileolists control the teaching of Astronomy and refuse to let geocentrism be presented as an alternative hows that they are AFRAID that students will be convinced by THE TRUTH, and that school children will reject their atheistic materialistic secularist indoctrination and instead accept the Bible's truth.

Hitler and Stalin were both ardent Galileolists; the materialist doctrine that allowed them to deny Man's Dignity as God's special creation.


716 posted on 01/04/2006 9:05:02 PM PST by MRMEAN (It Still Doesn't Move)
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