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Geocentrists Convene To Discuss How Galileo Was Wrong

Posted by timothy on from the when-did-britain-pull-ahead dept.

rollcall writes "'Galileo Was Wrong' is an inaugural conference to discuss the 'detailed and comprehensive treatment of the scientific evidence supporting Geocentrism, the academic belief that the Earth is immobile in the center of the universe.' The geocentrists argue that 'Scientific evidence available to us within the last 100 years that was not available during Galileo's confrontation shows that the [Catholic] Church's position on the immobility of the Earth is not only scientifically supportable, but it is the most stable model of the universe and the one which best answers all the evidence we see in the cosmos.' I, like many of you, am scratching my head wondering how people still think this way. Unfortunately, there is still a significant minority of Western people who believe that the Earth is the center of the universe: 18% of Americans, 16% of Germans, and 19% of Britons." I hope there is live blogging from the conference.

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  1. Re:Web site tense is wrong by hedwards · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Indeed, if we're going to Catholic bash, there's plenty of legitimately wonky beliefs to bash. Such as the widespread belief that people being molested by priests are responsible for the payments, rather than the church looking the other way and enabling the behavior.

  2. I am not surprised. by GNUALMAFUERTE · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I know we love to outrage over all this unscientific minds and their bold claims, but truly, it's not surprising.

    Once you have someone that believes in god, well, that's a bottom line. You can get a shitload of other crazy things form them, and it doesn't matter at all, because they have proven to be stupid and unscientific from the very beginning when they told you they believe in a magical creepy father figure in the sky.

    --
    WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
    1. Re:I am not surprised. by c6gunner · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      I tend to hate religion as a rule, but even I gotta say: you're being an idiot. Not only are such broad generalizations completely useless, but the basic premise is obviously flawed. Most of modern science is the result of hundreds of years of research by people who were religious to some extent. If there were any substance to your claim, we'd be chowing down on raw antelope in a cave instead of having a conversation by throwing photons at each-other from halfway around the world.

    2. Re:I am not surprised. by Yamata+no+Orochi · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      Christians were the birth of science.

      No.