Geocentrists Convene To Discuss How Galileo Was Wrong

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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Re:Doesn't really matter...

[Darkness404]

Easily. In 2006, government spending for defense was only $622.2 billion, in comparison, spending for Pensions alone was $747.1 billion. Now, in 2006 we didn't have true defense, were were pissing money away in 2 imperialistic wars (Iraq and Afghanistan) so the majority of that wasn't even true defense.

With the decrease of imperialistic wars, ending spending for things not involving fraud and force, the USA could cut taxes to a flat rate per household (it isn't going to cost more in this day and age to protect 4 rich people as it does 1 hobo for foreign invasion). Police would also be paid with a flat rate with the option of using a private security force if you so chose to. Etc.