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 ...
This has nothing to do with Intelligent design. And neither do the flat-earthers or other nuts, for that matter.
Also, the bible does not suggest this. It was Aristotle, who's teachings the Catholic Church intertwined with its doctrines.
A high IQ is not incompatible with being stupid.
GodDidIt cannot be disproved because by definition God can do anything.
Don't throw the cold water of facts on everyone's parade. They're having too much fun.
Apparently you haven't delved into the Echoes of Enoch!
This website was the source of the slanderous allegations posted against John Calvin recently.
Q: How many sorority girls does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: One. She grabs hold of it, and the universe revolves around her.
Not lately.
I am due for a road trip, though.
Uffda! 1000 pages of nonsense!
You've gotta just love the 1st Amendment.
I'm sure this guy'll be on Coast to Coast AM this weekend, with Ian Punnet.
The Earth may revolve around the Sun, but it sure doesn't look that way.
How does he feel about Evolution?
Please stop! I just ate lunch.
By someone of the same ilk that would discount the influence of the planets in astrology...
Yep your great great great great great great great ... grandmother was a monkey!
Or how about Global Warming?
Beg to differ. Inertial navigation systems start with accelerometers, which are sensitive enough to detect the earth's rotation as a rate of change in linear motion.
Cool! Can we go by way of the Pleiades?
Only if I get to choose the tunes.
I liked his books refuting the Protestant doctrines of Sola Scriptura and Sola Fide. They were written before he adopted this lunacy, at least publicly.
It does not rotate, it spins. We know this due to the flat earth society... 8-)
Is he by any chance related to Pab?
> This has nothing to do with Intelligent design.
An anti-science belief system based on religious belief, in response to settled science: quick, which is it? ID? Geocentrism? Democratic party policy?
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