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Torrere · 02-01-2004, 03:24 PM

Giordano Bruno was awesome!

The Bible was based upon Ptolemy's ideas of a stationary Earth, because during that period of time they were widely accepted and the Bible was a product of it's times. People continued to use the 'concentric shells' model of the Universe (although during the Renaissance some heretics modified it to allow for infinite depth stars).

Part of the problem was that was that if the Universe was stars from the boundaries of the solar system on out, where did Heaven go?

This link goes into the Biblical geocentrism, and attempts to harmonize the Bible and modern science. This is really easy to do if you pass the books of faith down through the generations, but much more difficult with books and incredibly difficult as the prose becomes more precise.

02-01-2004, 03:24 PM	#35
Torrere a real smartass Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Kirkland, WA Posts: 1,121	Giordano Bruno was awesome! The Bible was based upon Ptolemy's ideas of a stationary Earth, because during that period of time they were widely accepted and the Bible was a product of it's times. People continued to use the 'concentric shells' model of the Universe (although during the Renaissance some heretics modified it to allow for infinite depth stars). Part of the problem was that was that if the Universe was stars from the boundaries of the solar system on out, where did Heaven go? This link goes into the Biblical geocentrism, and attempts to harmonize the Bible and modern science. This is really easy to do if you pass the books of faith down through the generations, but much more difficult with books and incredibly difficult as the prose becomes more precise. Last edited by Torrere; 02-01-2004 at 03:33 PM.