Re: [asa] the Way Science Works/

On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, George Cooper wrote:

> Science has peeled away layers of myth and misinterpretation. The Geocentric view of the Earth was a helpful foundational view for believers, too. It took over 100 years to show that the better Copernican model was correct. Galileo was forcing the Church to do something it did not wish to do....reinterpret scripture.

The original readers of the Bible undoubtedly believed in geocentrism.
I think that many Christian defenders of geocentrism appealed to such
verses as Psalm 104:5, Psalm 93:1, and Psalm 96:10. However it appears to
me that these verses do not refer to planetary motions but claim that the
earth cannot be shaken off its foundations. Thus it is really the ancient
view of foundations that is relevant here. Since we have a different
understanding as to what is underneath us, this raises the question of how
we can read these verses to get the same sense of wonder about God's
creation as the ancients would have had.

Gordon Brown (ASA member)

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Received on Sat Jul 28 13:42:35 2007