Data Put the Earth at the Center of The Universe but Scientists Prefer to Say the Earth Orbits the Sun

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Galileo declared that the earth went around the sun after he built a telescope and saw the moons of Jupiter orbiting around Jupiter ~ 1609.  That helped Satan deny the clear Bible teaching[1] that the earth is the immovable center of God’s universe.  People trusted “science, falsely so called (1 Tim. 6:20[2])” instead of the Word of God.  Few modern Christians believe that the sun, planets, and the universe go around the earth.

Abandoning creation doctrines taught in Genesis 1[3] has led Christians to abandon more doctrines over time.[4]  Christians are falling away from longstanding doctrines (II Thes. 2:2-4[5]) faster and faster.

Sir Isaac Newton wrote, “I design only to give mathematical notion of these forces, without consideration of their physical causes and seats.”[6]  He knew that his mathematical formulas for earth and the planets following elliptical orbits around the sun did not mean that was what they did.

Einstein agreed that mathematics didn’t always match reality: “As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”[7]  The weather we experience doesn’t always match the mathematically-derived weather predictions.  That’s what Einstein meant when he said “as far as they [mathematical laws] are certain, they do not refer to reality.”

Christians didn’t pursue Sir Isaac’s saying that mathematics doesn’t necessarily describe reality, ignored Biblical teaching,[8] and agreed that the Bible was wrong.  This acceptance of unbelief[9] glorifies Satan.

The more data astronomers collected, the harder it became to deny that the universe revolved around the earth.  The simple experiment that proved that the earth was at the center came in 1871.[10]  This experiment was so convincing that it took Einstein 20 years to imagine a semi-plausible way to account for all the data while saying that the earth moved.[11]  The Times of London called his explanations “an affront to common sense,”[12] yet his fellow scientists praised his notions enough that he got a Nobel Prize!

Christians didn’t shout out the implications of the 1871 experiment, but physicists know very well what it meant.  Harvard professor Richard Lewontin explained why scientists defend the moving earth against so much compelling evidence that the universe rotates around the unmoving earth:

“We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment to materialism.

It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel[13] us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal[14] world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counterintuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated.  Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.”[15] [emphasis added]

Most scientists prefer to accept absurd ideas, tolerate “unsubstantiated just-so stories,” and support counterintuitive materialist explanations because God-oriented explanations are intolerable.[16]  Clinging to vain imaginations (2 Cor. 10:5)[17] is their only way to avoid acknowledging their Creator (Ps. 19:1)[18].  Their guilty consciences know that God expects them to answer for their sins so they try to pretend He doesn’t exist.

Scripture responds:

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.  Psalm 53:1

They are worse than fools.  Fools don’t understand the truth.  Scorners know truth, but choose to reject it.  A few are saying that their data say the earth is the center and that Einstein’s relativity must be abandoned.[19]

“An atheist cannot find God for the same reason a burglar cannot find a policeman” C. S. Lewis

True science goes wherever the facts lead.  Basing conclusions on human preferences is not science.^[20]

Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.  II Corinthians 2:11

Christians live by faith.  That means there can’t be scientific proof whether the earth or sun moves.  God said He fixed the earth in place, wrapped the universe around it, and sent His Son to earth to die for our sins.  Scientists say they choose to believe that the earth goes around the sun, a minor dust mote among billions, placed where it is by random chance, even though the fixed earth is the simplest way to interpret their data.

God expects His people to choose to believe that “God’s in His heaven; all’s right with the world.”[21]  The Bible teaches that God handles the math by “the Word of His power (Heb. 1:3).”[22]

Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?  Luke 18:8b

Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.  Mark 8:38 see also Luke 9:26

Do you trust science, falsely so called[23], or do you trust God’s Word?

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[1] https://successful-marriage.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-earth-does-not-move.html#verses

[2] O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:  I Timothy 6:20

[3] In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. ²And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. ³And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. ⁴And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. ⁵And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. ⁶And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. ⁷And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. ⁸And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.  Genesis 1:1-8
¹⁴And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: ¹⁵And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. ¹⁶And 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. ¹⁷And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, ¹⁸And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. ¹⁹And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.  Genesis 1:14-19

[4] https://successful-marriage.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-earth-does-not-move.html#abandonedDoctrines

[5] That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. ³Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; ⁴Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.  II Thessalonians 2:2-4

[6] Sir Isaac Newtion, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, 1698

[7] Sidelights on Relativity, Dover Publications, 1983, p. 28.

[8] https://successful-marriage.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-earth-does-not-move.html#biblical

[9] https://successful-marriage.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-earth-does-not-move.html#palatable

[10] https://successful-marriage.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-earth-does-not-move.html#MME

[11] https://successful-marriage.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-earth-does-not-move.html#savior

[12] Einstein: The Life and Times, p. 101.

[13] Denying compulsion is a fib – the fastest way to be defunded is to speak favorably of geocentrism.  The James Webb telescope shows that the Big Bang has problems, but Big Bang Believers control the money and won’t fund ideas which discuss its errors.

[14] Perceptible by the senses or through immediate experience

[15] “Billions and Billions of Demons,” The New York Review of Books, 1/9/1997, pp 28, 31

[16] https://successful-marriage.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-earth-does-not-move.html#confess

[17] Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;  II Corinthians 10:5

[18] The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.  Psalm 19:1

[19] https://successful-marriage.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-earth-does-not-move.html#follow

[20] God tries again when people won’t learn what He teaches.  People didn’t push back against science when the MME was misinterpreted so God allowed scientists and experts to demonstrate human fallibility for everyone to see during Covid.

[21] Pippa Passes, a verse drama by Robert Browning, 1841

[22] Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:  Hebrews 1:3

[23] O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:  I Timothy 6:20