Geocentric or Heliocentric?

A big debate has been gong on about the operation of our solar system and indeed, our Universe.  The problem is whether the accepted model that the planets orbit the Sun or whether the Earth is the centre of the Universe remaining still while everything revolves around it.  What an outlandish claim! That's what I thought when I came across it all but apparently there has never been conclusive experiments to prove any model either way.  Seriously!  But even suggesting you can cope with the idea of a stationary Earth places you well and truly in dum-dum category.

What I am intrigued about is not that I believe the Earth is centre of the Universe... to me it doesn't have to be... it is a lovely picture to see all things revolving around and depending on the great light. I am concerned that there has been a general push towards the earth revolving around the sun... less suggestion that we are unique and special in the Universe as the Bible suggests.

I'm also concerned that Christians 'make' things true to suit their position.  It would be nice to conclude that the Earth is stationary in the Universe and everything revolves around it but to be insistent about it is doing what science has been doing for years -  marketing something that they don't really know the answer to in order to fit their agenda.

So this post is about the fact that we are fed an agenda by...

I don't know who or what is behind this but maybe its the same people who want us to see the western countries bigger than third world countries and so alter the map.  Maybe it is those who want to bolster a no-God agenda and tell us we are a coincidental chance rather than a design by a designer.  School didn't teach me the consistent patterns throughout Creation.  In recent years Quantum Mechanics, the erosion of the Evolution Theory and evidence that we may be the centre of the universe sat stationary as the point of it all, is killing atheists.

I recently posted this on an atheist thread:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/wall-street-journal/is-science-showing-there-really-is-a-god/story-fnay3ubk-1227167151847

One atheist responded:  " even though this is true, that there are incredible odds against it... IT (evolution) STILL HAPPENS... can't you see it?

er... no.

Gary Ward