what are some scriptures that prove Esau's theory on the earth's orbit is incorrect? I heard a while back in the truth that everything revolves around the earth and that it doesn't rotate but stands still
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this is fine, if by "a while back" you mean 1500.
Also, Blurb - "I think I'll move to Tasmania, do you think they have Jesus there?"
answer - yes, and far too much.
I think it's worth pointing out that the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, assumes the Earth to be flat. Jesus thought the world was flat.
It's a matter of time before the Kansas State Legislature votes to allow other theories on the shape of the Earth.
And the long-awaited response:
"Earth is where life exist, when you read Genesis chapter 1, that is the proof that everything revolves around the earth, but the earth does not stand still it also spins."
Well, they have it *half* right....
Actually it depend where you place the referent you would be using, how you observe movement.
Still stupid because I doubt he meant something like that.
even if he did, still stupid.
"what are some scriptures that prove Esau's theory on the earth's orbit is incorrect?
Wait a minute - is this a fundy trying to prove something in the bible wrong? "
Actually, I'm pretty sure he's asking someone to give him scriptures that will PROVE that the earth is the center of everything. As in, this scripture will override science and the existence of retrograde motion, among other things.
@anonymous
"Actually it depend where you place the referent you would be using, how you observe movement"
[Rant on]No. Just NO. I am so tired of pseudoscience and this referent BS! This is valid as a MATHEMATICAL tool, not a PHYSICAL one. Because physics adds a bunch of laws to which purely mathematical object are not subjected to. Like inertia or relativity.
If you consider that earth as 'just any" valid referent in physics, you have to explain the Foucault pendulum, you have to explain how the stars are not thrown away by centrifugal force (or why they don’t simply follow a straight line) as inertia principle would predict.
You’d also have to explain how stars can travel the periphery of a circle with a radius of millions light years in only 24 hours contradicting the speed of light limit. But also how we can still see stars situated even as close as 1/2500 of a light year away: they would travel at the speed of light, slowing their own time down and emitting such infrared shifted light they wouldn't be visible
How hard is that to understand that scientists don’t say earth is rotating for the frigging fun of it?[rant off]
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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