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Kitsune · 02-01-2004, 03:01 PM

The Bible does teach a stationary Earth, because the Bible was based on a physical model of the Universe in which the Earth was stationary.

Actually, where does the bible state that the Earth is stationary? I can't remember where in the text that it does.

Interesting -- in doing some mild research (aka - "Google") I've read a bit that says the church's original teachings of a stationary Earth were based on Claudius Ptolemy's ideas.

Giordano Bruno had the audacity to even go beyond Copernicus, and, dared to suggest, that space was boundless and that the sun was and its planets were but one of any number of similar systems: Why! -- there even might be other inhabited worlds with rational beings equal or possibly superior to ourselves. For such blasphemy, Bruno was tried before the Inquisition, condemned and burned at the stake in 1600.

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02-01-2004, 03:01 PM	#24
Kitsune still eats dirt Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 3,031	The Bible does teach a stationary Earth, because the Bible was based on a physical model of the Universe in which the Earth was stationary. Actually, where does the bible state that the Earth is stationary? I can't remember where in the text that it does. Interesting -- in doing some mild research (aka - "Google") I've read a bit that says the church's original teachings of a stationary Earth were based on Claudius Ptolemy's ideas. Giordano Bruno had the audacity to even go beyond Copernicus, and, dared to suggest, that space was boundless and that the sun was and its planets were but one of any number of similar systems: Why! -- there even might be other inhabited worlds with rational beings equal or possibly superior to ourselves. For such blasphemy, Bruno was tried before the Inquisition, condemned and burned at the stake in 1600. More, here.

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