The sun orbits the earth every 24 hours
[Shortly afterwards]
The seasons are caused by the annual motion of the sun around the earth!!
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Excuse me - Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, and Johannes Kepler would really like a word with you out back. They said something about teaching you what orbits the Earth and what doesn't by direct observation.
Strange - I didn't see any of them carrying a telescope.
[Shortly afterwards]
I pooped myself again
Wow! He teleported from the 21th Century to the 13th and got back!!
Unfortunely, his brain got damaged in the process.
He's not contradicting himself, read the next sentance, "As well as orbiting the stationary earth every 24 hours, the sun also follows a spiral orbit from north to south each year. That is what gives us the 4 seasons."
It totally makes sense now!
Holy what the fuck. How do people actually believe this?
I can't stand people who believe crazy bullshit just because it makes them feel "special" - both because they're literally the center of the universe and because they're essentially claiming to be smarter than 99.999999999999% of the educated population. We're duped! We're sheeple! Grow up.
HOW
HOW THE FUCK DOES IT WORK.
(alternatively, fucking crazy people, how do they work?)
Because of course, the sun magically changing its position relative to the center of a disc causes seasons, and that 'disc shaped' Earth he proposes in one of his "proof" images only shows Africa. So he's a statonary-Earth, flat-Earth believer that flibbles up some science of his own to explain away the glaring inconsistencies
Bleeding idiots. How do they work?!
This is stupid, but just how stupid is it? Let's just assume for a moment that the sun could orbit the Earth.
24h is 86400s and the distance from the Earth to the sun is (on average) 1.50*1011 m.
Then using v=2pi *r/T gives vsun =1.09*107 m/s. This is roughly 3.6% the speed of light, that's fucking ridiculous as far as I'm concerned.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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