What Robert writes is very true. When I wrote in 1990 to Dr David Rosevear http://www.christiananswers.net/creation/people/rosevear-d.html president of the CSM, suggesting that they write something on the subject, he replied that "we have no intention of publicising Geocentrism as it would result in our losing credibility with both academia and the general public"! (quoted in note 28 of Walter van der Kamp's book "The Cosmos, Einstein and Truth" 1993). I also wrote to Malcolm Bowden. This reawakened his moribund interest in the subject, and he wrote an excellent chapter on the subject "Geocentrism - A Heresy?" ("True Science Agrees with the Bible" 1998). My own article on the subject, printed in the Jewish Tribune (appears on Dr Jones' site under "The Earth...cannot be moved"), instead of receiving support from Orthodox Jews that I had expected, instead drew a storm of letters to the editor with terms like "fog of nonsense", "red herrings", "drivel", "pseudo-scientific fanaticism", "starry-eyed fundamentalism", "narrow minded", "nonsense", "attempting to drag Judaism on to the path of the Spanish Inquisition" and even "profaning the Name of Heaven"! Robert Bennett <robert.bennett@xxxxxxx> wrote: Gary, > Just why don't creationists think the Bible is geostatic--this is a big > problem. > > I can give you a good reason, from personal experience. Creationists are already pariahs in their scientific AND RELIGIOUS communities, for challenging the scientific dogma of cosmic or biotic evolution. To adopt Geostatism as an additional crusade would, they think, put them in company with the Flat Earth society. So, 'to maintain peer credibility', they eschew the GS view, presumably until they can convert all the Darwinistas.