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To: Skooz
> I am just saying that it is useless to attempt to debate the willfully ignorance who's only biblical knowledge was gleaned from ihatechristians.com.

Well, sure. But what does that have to do with this situation, then?

> That annihilates your point that it was the "heretics" who discovered the earth rotates around the sun.

Copernicus and Galileo were seen as heretics.

> It was a Christian who discovered that.

Aristarchus of Samos was a Christian?
83 posted on 04/06/2004 12:57:37 PM PDT by orionblamblam
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To: orionblamblam
Copernicus and Galileo were seen as heretics.

Ludicrous.

Aristarchus of Samos was a Christian?

LOL! So that's what took you so long to respond. You had to Google and search websites to find someone else who knew heliocentric theory. Congrats.

Aristarchus of Samos was a brilliant mathematician who developed a heliocentric theory that was rejected because it was in opposition the accepted Aristotelian knowledge of the day. Ptolemy's geocentric theory was accepted as scientific fact for 15 centuries. So, it was the pagans who rejected the pagan's theory. Not the Christians, as you inferred.

Copernicus developed the heliocentric for modern science, thus refuting 1500 years of a non-Christian's geocentric view.

85 posted on 04/06/2004 1:10:45 PM PDT by Skooz (My Biography: Psalm 40:1-3)
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