Top Scientists Agree – Earth Is The Center Of The Universe

Aristotle and Ptolemy agreed.

All motion in the heavens is uniform circular motion.
The objects in the heavens are made from perfect material, and cannot change their intrinsic properties (e.g., their brightness).
The Earth is at the center of the Universe.
These ideas concerning uniform circular motion and epicycles were catalogued by Ptolemy in 150 A.D. His book was called the “Almagest” (literally, “The Greatest”), and this picture of the structure of the Solar System has come to be called the “Ptolemaic Universe”.

By the Middle Ages, such ideas took on a new power as the philosophy of Aristotle (newly rediscovered in Europe) was wedded to Medieval theology in the great synthesis of Christianity and Reason undertaken by philsopher-theologians such as Thomas Aquinas. The Prime Mover of Aristotle’s universe became the God of Christian theology, the outermost sphere of the Prime Mover became identified with the Christian Heaven, and the position of the Earth at the center of it all was understood in terms of the concern that the Christian God had for the affairs of mankind.

Thus, the ideas largely originating with pagan Greek philosophers were baptized into the Catholic church and eventually assumed the power of religious dogma: to challenge this view of the Universe was not merely a scientific issue; it became a theological one as well, and subjected dissenters to the considerable and not always benevolent power of the Church.

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5 Responses to Top Scientists Agree – Earth Is The Center Of The Universe

  1. Gator says:

    “More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCMzjJjuxQI

  2. Paul H says:

    And the cure for heart disease is cigarettes, whisky, no exercise and plenty of sausages!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gou1cspUfdY&feature=player_detailpage#t=77s

    (And America will beg to be let back into the Empire!!)

  3. Paul H says:

    Arsenal might have beaten Liverpool yesterday if they had taken 20 Kensitas onto the field with them.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4CXY6TVBMc&feature=player_detailpage#t=68s

  4. Mike Davis says:

    This is a fitting comparison to CO2 being the Prime Mover of Climate which in turn drives weather!
    It is Blasphemy to claim other wise and the wrath of the high priests of the Chicken Little movement will come down upon you!
    WOE be unto you for you are a sinner in he eyes of the profit, Brother Al!

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