Apparently, we've been wrong all along.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Apologies if this has already been posted.

Galileo Was Wrong, The Church Was Right

First Annual Catholic Conference on Geocentrism.

The Idea

Galileo Was Wrong is a detailed and comprehensive treatment of the scientific evidence supporting Geocentrism, the academic belief that the Earth is immobile in the center of the universe. Garnering scientific information from physics, astrophysics, astronomy and other sciences, Galileo Was Wrong shows that the debate between Galileo and the Catholic Church was much more than a difference of opinion about the interpretation of Scripture.



Scientific evidence available to us within the last 100 years that was not available during Galileo's confrontation shows that the Church's position on the immobility of the Earth is not only scientifically supportable, but it is the most stable model of the universe and the one which best answers all the evidence we see in the cosmos.

Welcome to the 17th Century, Indiana!

 

[Slimething]

I wouldn't be so quick to judge. After all, the author has advanced degrees in .... theology.

 

[arthwollipot]

Aren't there, like, nine other threads about this already?

 

[Fnord]

I have never understood, Your Excellency, why it is that every one of the studies I have published in order to please or to serve other people has aroused in some men a certain perverse urge to detract, steal, or depreciate that modicum of merit which I thought I had earned, if not for my work, at least for its intention. In my Starry Messenger there were revealed many new and marvelous discoveries in the heavens that should have gratified all lovers of true science; yet scarcely had it been printed when men sprang up everywhere who envied the praises belonging to the discoveries there revealed. Some, merely to contradict what I had said, did not scruple to cast doubt upon things they had seen with their own eyes again and again...

How many men attacked my Letters on Sunspots, and under what disguises! The material contained therein ought to have opened the mind's eye much room for admirable speculation; instead it met with scorn and derision. Many people disbelieved it or failed to appreciate it. Others, not wanting to agree with my ideas, advanced ridiculous and impossible opinions against me; and some, overwhelmed and convinced by my arguments, attempted to rob me of that glory which was mine, pretending not to have seen my writings and trying to represent themselves as the original discoverers of these impressive marvels...

I have said nothing of certain unpublished private discussions, demonstrations, and propositions of mine which have been impugned or called worthless...

Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything new.

Yup ... definately a wooist. I say we go back to geocentric thinking; the way that God has ordained from where that which is ordained must be.



(Hey ... Galileo and Dante in one post! Who'd a'thunk it?)

 

[JWideman]

Except Galileo arrived at his controversial idea by looking through a telescope and observing the movement of the stars, whereas the church used the bible for their "science".

 

[rjh01]

Aren't there, like, nine other threads about this already?

Actually there are four threads on the subject. I have tagged them all.