How certain are we that the Earth revolves around the Sun? Should we teach our children this "theory"?

Question

The Bible says that the Earth is the center on the universe, this means that the Sun revolves around the Earth. How can we refute this new contradictory evidence that suggests that the Earth revolves around the Sun?

Does anyone agree with me?

Answer 1

People misunderstand the concept of theory. The word theory can have two meanings.

Even Christians say that the bible is a work of faith not science. Galileo said: 'The Bible says how to go to heaven not how the heavens go'.

Answer 2

The Bible says that the Earth is the center on the universe, this means that the Sun revolves around the Earth

Couple of things, can you show the verse, if not you need to remove your question for being a misquote.

Second do you agree or disagree that something can be the "center " but still not the center. as in Washington DC is the center of the United States, most important decision occurs there. Paris is the Center of France. Now from a galactic view point, what other planet in the universe do we KNOW contains life? 1 right, would that not make earth the "center of the universe"

Answer 3

The Bible also says that the Earth is flat, and that from a tall tree you can see the ends of the Earth. It says that the sky is a firmament, i.e. solid. It says the stars are attached to the firmament, and that the stars fall to earth when detached. It says that above the firmament is water. It says that water is under the Earth. It says the flood happened because the "windows" of heaven were opened and the water came through them and that the water stopped when the windows were closed.

No! I do not agree w/ you. There is far too much verifiable evidence that contradicts a geocentric (earth centric) view.

I include a quote from Glen Elert, from a scholarly paper he wrote in 1999. The paper is widely cited and praised for its thoroughness and adherence to "just the facts, maam". It has been translated into several languages including Hebrew.

"The message here is, I think, obvious. The Bible is the literal truth only when it's convenient and doesn't conflict with overwhelming evidence. In my view, this invalidates the core of the anti-evolutionary movement in its entirety. If the Bible is open to interpretation from time to time, then it is open to interpretation at any time. If the Bible is occasionally poetic, then it is possibly poetic at any time -- even on the first page, even on the last page, even on every page."

Glen Elert is a physics teacher in the New York school system. I fully agree with his quote.

Answer 4

Your thinly veiled jab at creationists is humorous but inaccurate.

1) The Bible does not say that the sun revolves around the earth. The persecutors of Galileo were doing so for political reasons and were defending their scientific world view based on Aristotle not the Bible. They were wrong.
2) We have repeatable empirical evidence that the earth revolves around the sun. We have never seen living things sprout out of non-living things. This strongly held belief called "Spontaneous Generation" was prevalent until Louis Pasteur showed that when you seal the jar, no maggots form on the raw meat inside of it. But now the Darwinist have revived this theory under the title "Abiogenesis" and use it as a basis for explaining why they don't have to deal with God as the first cause.

Answer 5

Actually, the bible never really says it's the physical center of the universe, although there are some that would argue that references to firmament, earth, etc. (all based in hebrew old testament writings) show a belief in world that was flat and round (like a disc) with a dome of heaven above it, and water below. You can find info on that several places on the net and in your local library.

However...if the universe is indeed infinite, as we have been taught over the years, then any given point in the universe would be the exact center, wouldn't it?

Answer 6

First I don't agree that the Bible says the earth is the center of the universe.

Would you be so kind as to show me where that is taught in the Bible?

Please remember that the Bible has been saying since about 800 years before Jesus was born, that the earth is round. Isaiah 40:22

Which is long before scienctists figured out that the earth was round.

Pastor Art

Answer 7

The Bible doesn't say that the Earth is the center of the universe.

Answer 8

It is not a theory. It is a proven fact. There are satelites which have recorded the rotation of the earth around the sun.

Answer 9

We should also teach the supposedly spherical earth has in fact 4 corners from which wind comes.

Answer 10

it all depends on your point of reference. To us on eart,h the sun revolves around us, and we can verify this with our eyes. From our point of view the earth is not moving at all. From the sun's point of view, it is not moving. And from the universe's point of view, it is not moving.