Please, tell me more...
Posted on 03/28/2006 12:09:01 PM PST by orionblamblam
Bible proves Earth is center of universe, author argues The Earth is at the center of Robert Sungenis' universe. Literally.
Yours too, he says.
Sungenis is a geocentrist. He contends the sun orbits the Earth instead of vice versa. He says physics and the Bible show that the vastness of space revolves around us; that we're at the center of everything, on a planet that does not rotate.
He has just completed a 1,000-page tome, "Galileo Was Wrong," the first in a pair of books he hopes will persuade readers to "give Scripture its due place, and show that science is not all it's cracked up to be."
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For several years the Web site of his Catholic Apologetics International (www.catholicintl.com) offered a $1,000 reward to anyone who could disprove geocentrism and prove heliocentrism (a sun-centered solar system).
There were numerous attempts, Sungenis said, "some serious, some caustic," but no one did it to his satisfaction. "Most admitted it can't be proven." There's also no proof that the Earth rotates, he said. But what about Foucault's famous pendulum? Its plane of oscillation revolves every 24 hours, showing the rotation of the planet. If the Earth didn't rotate, it wouldn't oscillate.
Nope, Sungenis said: There just may be some other force propelling it, such as the pull of stars.
(Excerpt) Read more at sunherald.com ...
Just keep telling yourself that. My kids will need someone to sweep up after them as they go to the stars.
Well, I just hope one day I will enter the Age of Enlightenment as you have, Orion. Then, and just then, I can lay aside my childish belief system.
How does it feel to "have arrived", anyway?
"Ah, well. It hardly matters. While the IDers and the Geocentrists mioght well triumph, and the meek may well inheirit the Earth... thos who abandon such childish belief systems will conquer the universe soon enough."
While there are doubtless uninformed adherents on both sides of the issue, an informed geocentrist understands much more about the issues and why the concepts are unprovable.
"Maybe we'll leave the Earth and its culture of whack-jobism as sort of a zoo. It'll be entertaining to watch y'all try to build surface-to-space interceptors when y'all have to reject the rotation of the Earth."
Statements like this show just how uninformed most heliocentrists really are and support my point above.
'Surface-to-space' intercepts *are* calculated assuming a stationary earth.
> How does it feel to "have arrived", anyway?
I wouldn't know. It is serious hubris to think that the end of learning is anywhere near. This is a journey that won't even really begin before we've reached the stars.
What's the sweat man, Protestantism is in the same category as Arianism or Gnosticism.
He was on EWTN and had his own show until 2002 when he started talking like this. He always was on with Scott Hahn, et. alia.
> 'Surface-to-space' intercepts *are* calculated assuming a stationary earth.
BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!!!!!!
Yeah. I'll tell my co-workers that they can stop using POST, then, shall I? Maybe we can stop all the foolishness of launching low inclination orbital missions from near the equator and polar missions from higher latitudes and launching everything in an easterly direction.
Hell, maybe we'll finally stop using the rocket equation to calculate delta V. I always did think that it was always too restrictive.
Ping to a thread that bears on my search for the geocentric, homocentric, egocentric root causes of the YEC interpretation of Scripture...
I think we can safely declare the oxymoron-of-the-thread contest officially over.
Ah, but I was referring to your rejection of geocentrism. Or was I?
Maybe you should have taken the red pill.
Otherwise, I will continue to consider him to be an embarassment to both Christianity and science...
Nope, I was referring to the stuff Sungenis wrote before he got into this geocentrist lunacy.
>> informed geocentrist
> I think we can safely declare the oxymoron-of-the-thread contest officially over.
Seconded!
All in favor?
Aye!
"Informed geocentrist" Placemarker
OK, I'll stop being indirect. You're saying his prior scriptural analysis was sound but this scriptural analysis is lunatic. I find that amusing.
Please, tell me more...
Just because a person has wacky ideas in one area doesn't necessarily mean they are wacky in other areas.
"I have a 101 temperature...chills..and the sweats. Not feeling all that well today"
Body thetans who have taken you off-bridge, because of overts, no doubt.
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