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To: Physicist

Where in the Bible is Geocentric Cosmology asserted?

I've read through the book several times but I sincerely don't remember seeing the passage(s) referring to "The Heavens revolving around the Earth" or anything else strongly inferring such.

I am genuinely curious -- and NOT trying to start a flame contest, Physicist.


52 posted on 01/19/2006 8:29:07 AM PST by L,TOWM (Liberals, The Other White Meat)
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To: L,TOWM
Where in the Bible is Geocentric Cosmology asserted?

Here are a few geocentric passages in scripture, King James version. The first two, from Ecclesiastes and Joshua, were definitely used in Galileo's heresy trial. (Source: The Galileo Affair, by Maurice A. Finocchiaro, University of California Press, 1989.) I'm not certain of the other verses, but they speak for themselves:

Ecclesiastes:
1:5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. [Clear, unambiguous description of the sun's orbit around the earth.]

Joshua:
10:12 Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
10:13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
10:14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel.

1st Chronicles:
16:30 Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.

Psalms:
93:1 The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
96:10 Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.
104:5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be re-moved for ever.


53 posted on 01/19/2006 8:37:03 AM PST by PatrickHenry (Virtual Ignore for trolls, lunatics, dotards, scolds, & incurable ignoramuses.)
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To: L,TOWM
Where in the Bible is Geocentric Cosmology asserted?

Best to check with the geocentrists themselves...

http://www.geocentricity.com

http://www.fixedearth.com/

56 posted on 01/19/2006 8:49:35 AM PST by Stultis (I don't worry about the war turning into "Vietnam" in Iraq; I worry about it doing so in Congress.)
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