GEOCENTRICITY

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GEOCENTRICITY

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Geocentricity vs. Geocentrism

• Animations courtesy of
• Galileo Was Wrong.

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Geocentrism

• Geocentrism holds that the earth is at the center
  of the universe and that the universe is
  compartmentalized into different parts.
• Gravitation is a real force
• Centrifugal force is a fictitious force
• Coriolis force is a fictitious force
• When forming a theory, the effect of the universe
  can be ignored
• Quantum mechanics is separate from regular
  mechanics
• Geocentrism has no room for the Bible

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Geocentricity

• Geocentricity is an integrated approach to the
  universe
• Gravitation is a real force
• Centrifugal force is a real, gravitational force
• Coriolis force is a real, gravitational force
• When forming a theory, the effect of the universe
  must be considered
• Quantum mechanics regular mechanics originate
  from the rotating firmament
• Geocentricity, as an integrated model, has room
  for the Bible

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Geocentrism
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Geocentricity
The Modified Tychonic model
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What Saith Mythology?

• The Copernican Revolution

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Nicolaus Copernicus
Proposed that the earth orbits the sun and
rotates daily on an axis. Knew it was against
Scripture, thus waited until he was about to die
to publish it. Was encouraged to do so by the
Pope head of the Inquisition in 1535
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Tycho Brahe
Believed geocentric uni-verse is Scriptural Built
equipment to prove Copernican model
wrong Greatest naked-eye astronomer of all
time Proposed a geocentric model that saved all
appearances
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Galileo Galilei
Called the father of modern physics Used a
telescope to destroy the Crystalline Sphere
geocentrism Insisted that Copernican model was
proven, which got him in trouble with the Church
of Rome
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Galileo on ScriptureThe Scriptures teach us
how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go.
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It was moreover necessary in Scripture, in
order that it be accommodated to the general
understanding, to say things quite diverse ...
from absolute truth ... physical effects placed
before our eyes by sensible experience, should
not in any circumstances be called in doubt by
passages in Scripture that verbally have
different semblance, since not everything in
Scripture is linked to such severe obligations as
is every physical effect.
Galileo on Scripture

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Galileo the Church of Rome
Called before Inquisition in 1611 warned In
1633 wrote a book that made fun of the
Pope Called before Inquisition again Was shown
instruments of torture As with his first trial,
he was released to his villa and a pension
provided him by the RCC on the grounds that he
not teach heliocentrism as fact Before he died he
changed his mind and concluded that the
Geocentric Model was true after all.
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Proofs of heliocentrism

• Aberration
• Parallax
• Retrograde motion of the planets
• Foucault pendulum
• Geostationary satellite
• Earth as seen from the moon
• Seasons

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Aberration heliocentric geocentric
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Parallax
Click on figure for animation
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Retrograde Motion
There are times when the planets go backwards
Heliocentric explanation
Geocentric explanation
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Foucault Pendulum
A Foucault pendulum is said to prove the rotation
of the earth It only demonstrates a relative
rotation between earth and universe It cannot
tell which is actually rotating
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Geostationary satellite

• Communications satellites etc. hover over one
  point on earths equator
• Claim is that they should fall to earth
• But
• Recall that centrifugal force is a REAL,
  GRAVITATIONAL force in geocentric model, not a
  fictitious force as in the heliocentric model
• Geostationary satellite is not stationary as far
  as the universe is concerned

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Earth as seen from the Moon

• Astronauts on the moon saw the earth rotate
• Therefore, we have proof that the Earth rotates,
  not the universe
• A rider on a merry-go-round horse sees the
  central engine rotate
• Therefore, we have proof that the engine rotates,
  not the merry-go-round platform

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The Seasons
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What Saith Modern Science?

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Airys Failure
An experiment involving aberration A water-filled
telescope should be pointed further ahead than an
air-filled telescope Airy found they point the
same Implies the earth does not orbit the sun but
that the star follows the sun in its yearly
motion Or Fresnell Drag, or Relativity .
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Michelson-Morley Experiment
Tried to detect the motion of the earth about the
sun Found none
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Machs Principle
Found that geometry requires geocentricity and
heliocentrism to yield identical results Thus no
experiment can prove one over the other Inertia
due to the gravity of all objects in the universe
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Sagnac Experiment
An experiment related to the Michelson-Morley
test Designed to test for the rotation of the
earth Got a positive result However, cannot tell
if earth rotates or cosmos rotates about earth
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The Firmament
By the early 1930s it was clear that there was a
hidden medium underlying all of space In the
1980s this was identified as the firmament of
Genesis chapter 1.
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Lense-Thirring Effect

• Derived from a geocentric model in 1918
• Paper in Physikalische Zeitschr. Vol. 19
• Assumes universe is a shell rotating about the
  earth (or some central point)
• Finds there should be an effect not discoverable
  in a heliocentric model
• Gravity Probe B satellite etc. have apparently
  found it
• Claimed to be proof of Relativity, but

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Sir Fred Hoyle

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• We know that the difference between a
  heliocentric theory and a geocentric theory is
  one of relative motion only, and that such a
  difference has no physical significance.
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• Astronomy and Cosmology, 1975, p. 416.

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What Saith Scripture?

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Why is it important?
The question of the earths motion was the single
point in which orthodoxy came into real contact
with science ... for the stability of the earth
is as clearly assumed from one end of the Old
Testament to the other as the solidity of iron.
Those who take the Bible to be totidem verbis
dictated by the God of Truth can refuse to
believe it ... but ignorance apart, every word
is truth, or the writer did not mean truth. But
this puts the whole book on its trial for we can
never find out what the writer meant, unless we
otherwise find out what is true. ... Common sense
will either accept the verbal meaning or deny
verbal inspiration. Augustus de Morgan, 1916
edition of A Budget of Paradoxes
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Ecclesiastes 15

• The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and
  hasteth to his place where he arose.

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Language of Appearances?

• Genesis 1923 "The sun was risen upon the earth
  when Lot entered into Zoar.
• NOT literally true

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Language of Appearances?

• Genesis 1923 "The sun was risen upon the earth
  when Lot entered into Zoar.
• NOT literally true
• Mark 169 "Now when Jesus was risen early the
  first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary
  Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils."
• Literally true

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Malachi 42

• But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of
  righteousness arise with healing in his wings
  and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of
  the stall.

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Genesis 116

• And God made two great lights the greater light
  to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the
  night he made the stars also.

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Heliocentric case for Gen. 116
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Geocentric case for Gen. 116
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Joshua 1012-13

• 12 Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when
  the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the
  children of Israel, and he said in the sight of
  Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon and
  thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
• 13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed,
  until the people had avenged themselves upon
  their enemies. Is not this written in the book of
  Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of
  heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole
  day.

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Isaiah 388

• Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the
  degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of
  Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned
  ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.

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Psalm 196

• His going forth is from the end of the heaven,
  and his circuit unto the ends of it and there is
  nothing hid from the heat thereof.

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Yearly solar motion about the earth
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The Geocentric Model
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Tycho Brahes original model
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Modified Tychonic Model
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The Norwalt Orrery set at the first day
of winter.
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Joshua's Long Day
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Joshua 1012-13

• 12 Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when
  the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the
  children of Israel, and he said in the sight of
  Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon and
  thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
• 13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed,
  until the people had avenged themselves upon
  their enemies. Is not this written in the book of
  Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of
  heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole
  day.

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Joshuas Long Day
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Hezekiahs Sign
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Isaiah 388

• Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the
  degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of
  Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned
  ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.

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Hezekiahs Sign