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And Science is arguing against Scripture. For 2000 years, they have tried to stamp out the message of Scripture. It remains undamaged and strong. I like my odds.

Science IGNORES scriptures, just as it should IGNORE religion in any of it's work.

Science is Science, religion is religion, they are 2 different and opposite things.

If science is somehow able to hurt your faith, I think that the problem is with your faith, NOT science.

Perhaps you need to work on your faith and ignore science for a while? Because at this point you are only going to hurt yourself.

Just so we'll be on the same page, so to speak, here are a few geocentric passages in scripture, King James version. The first two, 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.

Thus, there are many places in the Bible where a literal reading is contrary to the solar system. This conflict is at least as clear as any passages you can cite which conflict with evolution. Yet you seem to accept the solar system. Everyone does -- now, but they didn't in Galileo's day, and scripture hasn't changed at all. So what's going on here? That is the double standard of which I spoke.