the-pi-guy said:
The geocentric view was the dominant theory for a very long time. Not just Jews, but Greeks, and Christians. The reality is, is that we would feel the same regardless of what planet or moon we were on. This is because of momentum, we can't feel momentum. We feel force. As long as the force is zero, the momentum is constant and we feel nothing. So for example if you're in a helicopter and you fly up 1000 mph, the helicopter still has the Earth's momentum, the only force is the upward one, not the one going in circles. The helicopter is still going around the Earth at the same speed it is spinning. The same thing happens if you were to gently throw a ball up in the air while in a car. The ball has the car's momentum along with the Earth's momentum. The geocentric view isn't perfect in explaining everything we can see in the solar system and neither was the original heliocentric view. The geocentric view used a few math devices to try to fix its mistakes. One such example is the eccentric. Ptolemy used an eccentric, which is the idea that the planets don't quite revolve around the Earth but some random spot right next to it to try to explain some occurrences. There was also the epicycle on the deferent, which was kind of the planets revolved around the Earth in large circle. Etc, not important. Some complications were required for the apparent retrograde motion of the planets. Kepler and Newton were what really fixed the Copernican view. Both of which were Christians. |
I don't think there is much point explaining, I think the point of this thread is to hope a few ignorant non-theists click on a few of the links and listen to what sound like sensible logical explanations refuting complex science that they don't currently understand. The best thing to do unfortunately is lock the thread or not post so it dissapears into the internets own version of the aether.
