I just read a blog advocating the geocentric model and just wanted to drop some math on ya.
In order for just the other stars in our galaxy to travel around the earth every day they would need to travel at 5,451,388 light-years per
second, and would emit enough radiation from the conflicting centrifugal and centripetal force to vaporize everything in the galaxy.
Furthermore the earth would have to have a gravitational field hundreds of billions of times that of the sun in order to make them revolve around the earth at just the slow-poke speed they actually move, not the 7.5 billion times the speed of light they would be travelling at which would necessitate far more gravity and be far more devastating.
Furthermore if you add in all the other galaxies all of these figures increase exponentially. Rather than 5 million lightyears per second the galaxies outside of our own would be traveling at over one quadrillion light-years per second in order to travel around the earth every 24 hours.
People believe this.
Creationism DVDs are a tax on people who are bad at math : )
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Where did you find this blog? Did this guy not graduate grade school, let alone high school?
God, I didn't even think creationists were lacking enough to realize the malarkey that is a geocentric model.
Wow.
The center of the universe? I didn't even realize there were people who still believed that. o.O It makes me want to cry in the corner.
did u see all the quotes he took out of context?
I should make some Christian creationism DVDs that point out the reason why a literal interpretation of the Bible's account on creationism does not work. I mean... DVDs by a person that is Christian explaining such things.
Who is this person? I want to read that blog.. can you post a link?
If people believe this crap I feel pain for their stupidity
@Pandiie_Bear - @wtf_turmoill - : ( Sorry.
@lalalandsucks4ever - Who?
@The_ATM - I'd rather not. I didn't make this blog to hassle him.
I'd like to see the blog for myself.. It's hard to believe that anyone could be so backwards.
Oh. I just saw that you wouldn't post the link. Jk on that last comment.
There are tens of millions of people who believe in Creationism, and you'd be hard pressed to find a few hundred who believe the earth is the center of the solar system. Yes, there are a few crazy people out there, but it's not really fair to attribute it to "creationism" on the whole. It's like saying that there are people who think 9/11 is an inside job, so anyone who is a liberal is crazy.
@Sounds0fLaughter - @The_ATM - Here's the link he linked to in his blog.
@Theophilus166 - Well not every creationist (not nearly all actually) is a geocentrist, but all creationists believe similarly craaaazy things.
Creationism is not just belief that there was or is a creator, but belief in a literal interpretation of genesis or some other creation myth. Most christians are not creationists.
It's only the center of the universe as long as I'm on it.
Hahahah!! Vaporize the galaxy. I love it.
Some people will buy anything.
Because I am!
@Gunner_Poole - bitch please
@agnophilo - that gene guy
I'm not claiming the earth is at the center but I read this from FkiProfessor and wondered what you think.
"CMB (cosmic microwave background) is uniform at 2.76°K (about 5°F above absolute zero) in every
direction from Earth. The nearly perfect uniformity of the radiation
presents problems to Big Bang cosmology. The Smoothness Problem for Big
Bang cosmology is the formation of ordered cosmic structures –
galaxies, galaxy clusters, and so forth. In 1992 a NASA satellite
detected a tiny ripple, about one part in 100,000, in the cosmic
background radiation. Big Bang cosmologists claim this ripple accounts
for the organization of galaxies. The Flatness Problem is that density
of the universe must have been exactly right at the start of the Big
Bang. Too dense and the universe would collapse inward, not dense
enough and the expansion would have approached infinity almost
instantly. It is because of this problem that cosmologists postulate
things like dark matter to account for what appears to be inadequate
cosmic density. The Horizon Problem is that light coming from opposite
directions is so uniform when the light horizon is about 30 billion
light-years across. Either the universe has no center and thus must be
unbounded or if bounded, we must be very near the center.
By arbitrarily rejecting the spherical model, the center is rejected.
Expansion is relative to whatever arbitrary location is chosen to
observe from. With no center to the universe, there is no center of
gravity in the universe. Without a center of gravity there is no
gravitational time dilation in one part of the universe with respect to
any other part. A bound spherical universe does have a center of
gravity and does exhibit gravitational time dilation. Gravitational
time dilation is real – it has been measured using atomic clocks. A
clock at sea level will run slightly slower than a clock at high
altitude. Although the effect is very small, if applied to the whole
universe – assuming it was originally condensed to a small volume – the
result would be vast elapsed time at the fringe of the universe
compared with the center.
One of the best kept secrets of Big Bang theory is that the universe
has no boundary and no center. Thanks to the work of Hubble and those
who have come after him, we have been able to see and catalogue
galaxies nearly 14 billion light-years away. Thanks to our “galactic
bumpkin” location at the outskirts of the Milky Way we have an
excellent view of most of the rest of the universe. What we observe
appears to be a roughly even scattering of galaxies in all directions.
The regular amount of red shift we observe among the most distant
galaxies indicates that on average, all distant galaxies are moving
away from us. Logic says that if a roughly equal field of objects out
to the same distance in all directions are all moving away from you at
roughly the same rate, you must be at the center of that field. The
technical term is “isotropic."
Also, have you read anything about Dark Matter being hard to explain if we are not at the center?
I know of no christian who believes that the Earth is at the center of the universe. I do believe the Bible but it must be taken in context. Christianity does NOT teach that the earth is the center of the universe, but that Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven. God sent Jesus so that all can go to heaven if we accept His free gift.
I do believe that the theory of evolution is flawed and in error, but I'm not about to get into an argument here.
To those with a genuine open mind, God is readily seen in all creation.
But surely you're aware that all points of reference are fully and equally valid? And so the earth is statonary at the center of the universe, since it seems to me to be.
@ShimmerBodyCream - Exactly. Everyone knows that.
wrong century.
Well, that doesn't really follow the title. What you stated disproves that the universe and galaxy revolve around our planet. It does not necessarily disprove whether or not earth is at the center of the universe.
Hah! Life On Mars started playing when I clicked on your post.
No big D. People believe all sorts of crazy shit. Some people even believe that the universe was formed by a "Big Bang" and that monkeys magically transformed into people!