geocentric

Come on guys, i still struggle to make the change from the flat earth model to the geocentric model.

Indeed, this whole thing is little more than an attempt to declare a geocentric model of the universe as scientific.

The creation account in Genesis and in Timaeus are both geocentric accounts of an initially perfect creation, etc.

But I think that, on the available evidence, it makes sense to see that an an opinion on the level of disliking cilantro, not on the level of disliking geocentric cosmology.

"The animation archived on this page shows the geocentric phase, libration, position angle of the axis, and apparent diameter of the Moon throughout the year 2011, at hourly intervals.

One of the empirical phenomena that reasonably supported a geocentric cosmology was the absence of observable parallax in regard to the stars.

The geocentric model is due to Ptolemy and Aristotle, Greek philosopher/scientists pre-dating Christianity by centuries who were both probably almost completely unaware of the Jews.

Though I would not be categorically opposed to finding a word for "that crazy mix of Buddhism, Taoism, and local geocentric folk religions that is practiced in various ways in China" - bit of a mouthful after all.

In fact, every major shift in our worldview has come from such paradigm shifts that start with fringe ideas that challenge conventional wisdom or dogma - starting with Galileo challenging the Church's dogma about a geocentric universe.

In fact, one could argue that the state of Chomskyan linguistics is like the state of astronomy circa Copernicus: it wasnt that the geocentric model didnt work, but the theory required so many additional orbits-within-orbits that people were finally willing to accept a different way of doing things.