According to book i read the church believes that the earth is the center of our solar system perhaps even the universe, has science forced religion to accept a few basic idea's about the universe?
2007-06-15 18:28:41 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
No, the sun is the centre of our solar system and our system is on the edge of a galaxy which is nowhere near the centre of the universe.
2007-06-15 18:32:20 · answer #1 · answered by Sado 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well the church sustained for a very long time a system in which planets would basically revolve around earth, but there was MASSIVE corrections with secondary orbits of the planets around a silly revolution center on the primary orbit. The revolution center would take the true planet's revolution time to go around Earth, and all the planets would go around their own center in about a year.
Strange coincidence huh?
It explains it all if you place the sun in the center.
Yes indeed, without guys like Copernicus and Galileo, we would not know the shape of the universe beyond our own atmosphere.
Wait a minute, I remember now, church was wrong even before that, saying earth was flat...
And now the pope writes a book saying there is no proof for the theory of evolution. AND PEOPLE ACTUALLY BELIEVE HIM ONCE MORE!?
2007-06-16 01:37:29 · answer #2 · answered by Kilohn 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The book you read deliberately confuses "the church" and what it holds as true today with "Creationists" (a strand of religious belief that thinks everything in the Bible is literally true) and what they hold as true today, which is a series of beliefs the church long ago abandoned. but to which Creationists still stubbornly adhere.
Geocentrism (the earth at the centre of the universe) was first proposed as a system of belief by the Hellenic scholar Ptolemy in Alexandria in Egypt in the 2nd Century AD and it was the dominant theory until Copernicus argued for heliocentrism in his book On the Revolution of the Celesfial Spheres in 1543.
No serious scientist supports geocentrism and no church does either. The case for heliocentrism has been overwhelmingly demonstrated in the last 400 years.
The question asked is in a sense meaningless as its assumptions are not valid. The Sun is not a planet ((though it was once thought to be one). The Sun does not revolve around he earth. Nor do any of the planets.
So a time period for something that doesn't actually happen cannot be measured. Sorry. Though you raise an interesting possibility: that Creationists may feel obliged to put some numbers together to make their assertions credible to enquiring minds and then what basis would they as anti-scientists have to come up with any one set of numbers rather than another, and then to justify their choice?
2007-06-17 07:24:54 · answer #3 · answered by brucebirchall 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Since there are so many undeniable facts that show for certain that all the planets, including earth, revolve around the sun the church would make themselves into a joke if they were to maintain those hopelessly outdated notions. Religion is supposed be about truth not the egghead notion of some medieval pope. Nowhere in the bible does it say that the sun revolves around the earth. So why would the church be trying to implement ridiculous ideas that are not even religious doctrine? Here´s the truth as it has been proven time and time again:
The planets and the time it takes for them to make one revolution around the sun (sideral period):
Mercury: 87.97 (earth) days
Venus : 224.70 days
Earth: 365.70 days
Mars: 686.98 days
Jupiter: 4332.7 days
Saturn: 10760 days
Uranus: 30685 days
Neptune: 60082 days
Some other worlds:
Ceres: 16831.3 days
Pluto: 90767 days
2007-06-16 05:04:42 · answer #4 · answered by DrAnders_pHd 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, creationists believe such nonsense not the church, or any church that I am familiar with. I know the Catholic church apologized for the persecutions of Galileo and Copernicus.
I think the vast majority of religions have accepted modern science.
2007-06-16 01:34:58 · answer #5 · answered by kennyk 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The earth and other planets revolve around the SUN!
2007-06-17 17:19:55 · answer #6 · answered by Horcrux 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would hope that science has forced religion to adopt a few more 'enlightened' views of reality. But I doubt that it actually has.
If we aren't the 'center' of the Universe, then it undermines the belief that 'God' considers us 'special'.
Doug
2007-06-16 01:34:13 · answer #7 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
here's a secret
I'm working for the CIA and I shouldn't be telling you this but the sun is revolving around the earth and it takes 999 billion years
2007-06-16 01:35:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
They would follow in sequence the sun first,oh a couple years should do it. Struth!
2007-06-16 08:06:44 · answer #9 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the question is how long does all that stuff take to orbit around my x wife
2007-06-16 01:38:08 · answer #10 · answered by doug h 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋