The Bible teaches that the Earth is stationary and immovable at the center of a "small" universe with the sun, moon, and stars going around it every day. All observational and experimental evidence -- and non-occult math, i.e., true science -- supports the Bible teaching.
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What's occult math?
The Bible is the only thing that supports the Bible teaching. All real evidence, real science support the real large universe, with a rotating and orbiting Earth around an insignificant star on the outskirts of the Milky Way.
@Swede
Any maths that disproves their religious obsession.
Like co-ordinates, cosines, latitudes and measuring the inclination of the sun at different ones.
Where the hell was this occult math class when I was in school? That sounds fun! Regular math was a boring class (usually).
Also, where does the Bible teach this? Is it in the back with all the other bullshit people claim is buried in there?
@Azereaux
Also there is a verse about the 4 corners of the earth. And the part where god stopped the motion of the sun(not the revolution of the earth).
@2072436
Which fundies do.
-- and non-occult math, i.e., true science --
Pi
No contradictions here, halleluyah!
In one sense, neither geocentrism nor heliocentrism is an accurate description of the universe. In another sense, the "center" of the universe is irrelevant, and either geocentrism or heliocentrism, or anywhere-else-centrism, is equally valid if it makes the math easier. If you're shooting a satellite into earth orbit, you might as well model everything with the earth as your fixed reference, because it makes describing the orbit easier. If you're launching a probe to Mars, on the other hand, it's often easier to use the sun as your reference. If you're going for an earth/sun Lagrange point, you actually treat both of them as immobile. No one frame of reference is privileged over any other. (I want to say this is part of relativity, but I could be wrong.)
Of course, the Bible's cosmology is still wrong in all the usual ways and some new and exciting ones, but that's as may be.
@Mister Spak
"Satan put Jesus on the top of a high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the earth, which can be done on a flat earth, not a round earth."
It's always confused me, the fundies that insist this is proof of a flat Earth. Going by their own beliefs, they're super-powerful beings who can warp the laws of reality. I'm sure if they wanted to, they could "see" every kingdom in the world at once even if it was round.
Bonnie, sweetie, is that what the preacher told you? And do you believe EVERYTHING the preacher tells you? Oh, ick, Bonnie, no details, please!
@Thanos6
A round earth fundie tried something like that on me when I brought this up. He said satan spiritually took Jesus to a spiritual mountain and spiritually discerned those countries, it wasn't literal. I asked him why it wasn't the bottom of a spiritual mine shaft because you can spiritually discern just as well from there.
He had nothing to say.
@Mister Spak:
For drama, of course!
non-occult math
Lol
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Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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