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 wondering. I don't believe I've seen him on EWTN, not that I watch it, but I'll stop surfing if something looks
interesting. Or I type in the wrong digits on the number pad. (TV card...)
> Mars=Mercury... I think.
Yeesh. Is that what Publik Skools are teaching these days?
At TAC, there were two phrases you learned immediately upon entering. One was "With enough epicycles!". (The other was Aquinas' quote that "one may drink unto the point of hilarity!")
Oh man, you know you're going to Hell for that doncha? Recant before it's too late.
Everything else is on a transparent sphere just outside the orbit of the sun.
Geesh. Some people just have to be told everything.
No, I just couldn't remember offhand whether it was Mars or Mercury that shows retrograde motion. I think it's Mercury, but I originally said Mars.
Sorry, is it to late to retract my comment?
I'll admit it IS interesting and thought provoking, notwithstanding the hecklers. When you think about the conventional wisdom that the Earth is hurtling eastward at, what, 1000 mph, why are objects as ephemeral as clouds apparently moving in tandem? Why wouldn't they be losing the race at some point due to the declining strength of the molecular pull?
In other words, if I am on a carousel and holding out a steel rod, it will certainly move in tandem with me because it is solid and connected. But if a hold out a balloon on a string, it will quickly lag behind.
Hmmm.
How does this idiot explain the seasons, or the tides?
"that would seem to conflict just a tad with the notion of stars lightyears away revolving around the Earth every 24 hours."
Very good point.
I suppose he claims the stars are much smaller and closer.
Or maybe just pinpricks in the shell of the turtle we are encased in, which lets in the light of heaven. (Or is that some Indian religion?)
A little problem in that various space probes have gone further than that and not reported smacking into any crystal spheres...
"How does this idiot explain the seasons, or the tides?"
A: "GodDidIt."
> How does this idiot explain the seasons, or the tides?
"God did it."
See how easy this is?
Grrrr....
I'd like to know what major publishing firm printed his 1,000 page tome.
Flaming fools know no bounds.
The clouds are both being pushed by the same air mass, which is being moved, in part, by friction with the earth, and in part by temperature differences.
Are you kidding?
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