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To: allmendream

>>But Christian literalists defended their Geocentricity with that scripture. What mechanism convinced the Christian world that this particular interpretation was in error?<<
I believe it was that the non geo-centric model made useful predictions that were important.


153 posted on 02/19/2009 9:05:29 PM PST by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
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To: gondramB
It also became increasingly untenable to insist upon “epicycles within epicycles” to explain how everything could be moving around a motionless Earth.

Data convinced people, good God fearing Christian people, that a literlist interpretation of Psalm 104:5 was in error.

Now nearly everyone in the Christian world accepts that the Earth circles the Sun, and that Psalm 104:5 doesn't mean anything more than that God made the Earth a safe place for us, a secure foundation.

155 posted on 02/19/2009 9:10:00 PM PST by allmendream ("Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?")
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