For today’s science wackery, I give you Heliocentrism is an Atheist Doctrine.
It seems clear that it may occasionally be convenient to assume that the calculations of Copernicus and Kepler were mathematically sound. However, for both moral and theological reasons, we should always bear in mind that the Earth does not move. If it moved, we would feel it moving. That’s called empiricism, the experience of the senses.
It’s also wrong because Newton had to “invent math” to make it work, as a quoted list of facts shows. In fact, let’s take a look at several of those facts.
2) The earth moves only thru abstract, abstruse, and esoteric mathematics invented to make it move.
4) Relativity is pure claptrap and there isn’t a person reading this who can’t know that fact.
5) Foucault’s Pendulum, the Coriolis Effect, and geostationary satellites do not prove a moving earth.
6) Anyone can see that the results of the Michelson-Morley experiments–especially the light fringe results–prove a stationary earth; and other facts about eclipses, satellite re-positionings, alleged blinding earth speeds, gravitational hooey, etc., add to the proof….
Why is this such a concern? Because the evils of heliocentrism must be opposed because it led to evolution which leads to Godlessness.
Are you ready for the punchline? This post is on a blog supporting Sam Brownback for president.
Look, people, even your Heliocentric hero Galileo recanted his idiotic notions about the Earth revolving around the Sun. If he’s your so-called reliable source on this, I think it does wonders to shatter the idea’s credibility that one of its main proponents backed away from it so abruptly.
I can’t stop quoting from this article! It’s a treasure trove of awesomeness. And don’t miss the comments, where someone asks if the post’s writer is trying to “give Jon Swift a run for his money”. The writer replies, “Who’s Jon Swift?”
(Taken from James Nicoll)
Wow…I got sucked into the comments. Just…wow. I can’t decide which bit of ignorance is my favorite…the claim that bats are birds, or that “the metric system is pure evil.”
This is when we need a national Buzz Aldrin Alert System, so ol’ Buzz can be flown to the home of people who espouse such nonsense so that Buzz can do that thing he does.
BOOM! Aldrin-punch to the face.
Who is Jon Swift? No doubt, they were referring to me and my modest blog.
I will be under my desk, rocking myself quietly, if anyone needs me. 🙂
Oh. My. Xenu.
Why does someone who thinks that $deity made the entire world can’t have also invented the physics that makes it run?
I think that it comes down to the fact that these folks fear that, if you can determine the how, you don’t need the why. Just a guess. I’m mostly beyond explaining it, finding it awful hard to fit my feet into those shoes to walk any distance in them.
Damn them! Uncovering our plot to dominate the world! I’ll have to tell all the other atheists that we’ve been discovered at the meeting we all have on thursdays.
Ah, so that’s what all you computer types were doing at Satisfactions every week. If only I had known and come along as a spy, instead of doing science!
I can’t stop laughing at this! 🙂
I’d argue with it, but there’s really not enough meaningful information here to argue with.
As usual with anti-science crap like this, it’s a mix of truths, half-truths, intentional misunderstandings, distortions, and just plain silliness crafted to make people feel better about their determined ignorance of science.
It really comes down to yet more of the “You can’t absolutely prove it’s true, therefore it must be false” and “There’s significant debate within the scientific community…” garbage that has been used to defend the labeling of intelligent design as science.
Choice quotes:
…which conveniently ignores the even MORE abstruse mathematics necessary to explain the movement of other bodies in the universe if you assume Earth as an absolute reference point.
Rather than answer that one directly, I’m going to quote a great philosopher’s response to a similarly ignorant statement: