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To: Sherman Logan
Oddly enough, the heliocentric system was later proven to be just as inaccurate as the Ptolemaic system. FWIW

Rubbish. While it is not perfect, it is qualitatively and quantitatively less wrong than the geocentric model, which in turn is less wrong than the flat-Earth model, which itself is less wrong than the notion that the Earth is the shell of a giant tortoise standing upon an infinite pillar of giant elephants.

Just as relativistic kinetics and dynamics are indistinguishable from Newtonian mechanics at low velocities, and quantum mechanics indistinguishable from Newtonian mechanics for masses larger than subatomic particles, so do all scientific theories approach better and better models of reality.

It is an asymptotic effect. We will never know the mind of God exactly, but through science we come ever closer and closer to perfect knowledge of His creation.

-ccm

63 posted on 01/07/2007 4:50:26 PM PST by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: ccmay

The heliocentric model, as explained by Copernicus, was that the planets, of which the Earth was one, orbited in perfect circles around the Sun, as did the stars.

While recognizing that the Earth was not the center of the universe was an advance, moving that center to the Sun was not really that much of an advance.

Not to mention that planetary orbits are not perfect circles.


66 posted on 01/07/2007 5:04:48 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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