[geocentrism] Geocentrism response

  • From: Bernie Brauer <bbrauer777@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 10:52:37 -0700 (PDT)

"Yes, it's true that the Bible (God's holy and infallible Word) teaches 
geocentrism. According to the Bible, the earth neither revolves around the sun 
nor rotates on an "axis", but is solidly fixed in one position. Psalm 104:5 
says, "[the LORD] set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved." 
Likewise, Psalm 93:1 and 1 Chronicles 16:30 state that "the earth is firmly 
established, it cannot be moved." Ecclesiastes 1:5 states that "the sun rises 
and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises."

But there are obvious problems with the Bible's geocentric doctrine. For 
starters, at least 333 planets have been discovered outside of our solar 
system, and all of these planets have been found to be revolving around other 
stars. Moons revolve around planets, and planets revolve around stars. That's 
the way solar systems work. Nowhere else in the universe do we find a star that 
revolves around a planet. Planets are much smaller than stars. Stars have more 
mass and therefore more gravitational pull, and it is this gravitational pull 
that keeps planets in orbit around stars. Stars give birth to planets; planets 
don't give birth to stars. 

Another problem with the geocentric theory is that it violates the laws of 
physics for the following reasons: 

"Conservation of momentum requires that when one object circles another, the 
center of mass of the system must remain fixed. The two objects actually 
revolve around their common centers of mass. For double stars with comparable 
masses, the center of mass is between the stars. For cases where one object is 
far bigger than the other, like the earth and moon, or the sun and earth, the 
center of mass is within the larger object. But it is never at the center of 
the larger object. So if anything revolves around the earth, the earth also has 
to move." 
 
"Unless you want to postulate that, of all objects in the universe, the earth 
is not subject to the laws of motion. But individual pieces of earth obey the 
laws of motion. Tie two rocks to opposite ends of a string and throw them, and 
they'll revolve around their center of mass. So why would the earth as a whole 
be different? Where's the evidence that it is?

"Second, if you picture the earth as not rotating, then everything else is 
whipping around the earth every 24 hours. Anything more than about 4.1 billion 
kilometers away would be moving faster than the speed of light. The Sun would 
be moving at 3.6% of the speed of light and should show measurable relativistic 
length contraction. Uranus and Neptune should be squashed flat as seen through 
a telescope, as well as their rings. Believers in weird physics tend to dismiss 
relativity, but the changes in space and time due to motion were actually 
worked out by Joseph Larmor, Hendrik Lorentz and Henri Poincaré before Einstein 
ever came on the scene."  Kasalt


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