[allmendream]

“Do you realize that the moon exerts twice the gravitational (influence) force on the earth that the sun does?” GDan

Still absolutely and unambiguously incorrect.

The Sun exerts one hundred seventy times the force upon the earth that the moon does.

I have a mouse in my pocket.

Now can you answer my two very simple questions about your supposedly superior model?

What force drags the Sun around the Earth while not acting to move the Earth?

What Biblical justification can you source that implies suggests or otherwise mentions a Geocentric universe?

[GourmetDan]

"The Sun exerts one hundred seventy times the force upon the earth that the moon does."

And that's the difference between calculation and observation.

[GourmetDan]

"The Sun exerts one hundred seventy times the force upon the earth that the moon does."

"To be entirely correct, we must tell you that the laws of physics involved actually show that the Moon is the one of the most important objects to the Earth... gravitationally speaking. It is the Moon which is responsible for things like ocean tides and such. All the other planets in our solar system added together do not have as large a gravitational effect on the Earth as the Moon does."

"Here is a table of tidal forces of the Sun, Moon, and Planets. With the Sun's tidal force equal to 1.00, the following values are given in Thompson (1981):"

Moon 2.21

Sun 1.00

Venus 0.000113

Jupiter 0.0000131

Mars 0.0000023

Mercury 0.0000007

Saturn 0.0000005

Uranus 0.000000001

Neptune 0.000000002

Pluto 0.0000000000001

NASA