13 Fructidor CCXIII (August 30, 2005)
This Post is the Centre of the Internet
I've had this link kicking around for a while, but I don't appear to have posted it: The Association for Biblical Astronomy Official Geocentricity Site. The entire site is best summed up with this quote: "It assumes that whenever the two are at variance, it is always astronomy—that is, our "reading" of the "Book of Nature," not our reading of the Holy Bible—that is wrong.".
I'd say I find it hard to believe that, in this day and age, many people take such an idea seriously, but a recent article in the New York Times (via Boing Boing) claims that "[o]ne adult American in five thinks the Sun revolves around the Earth, an idea science had abandoned by the 17th century." Yeesh.
The question is: besides being pig-headed (see quote number 1), are these people also highly narcissistic for believing that mankind is so special as to be the centre of the universe?
(Also found: The Earth is Not Moving, the website of a geocentrist who needs to check his tinfoil hat. For some reason the main page reminds me of Time Cube, only without the huge fonts; I kept expecting to be told that I was "educated stupid".)
This is exactly why the world is such a mess. I can believe that people like this still exist but it's hard to believe how seriously they take themselves. It's frightening really.
Posted by Ali at 14 Fructidor CCXIII 14:59 (2005/08/31)
And that, Ali, is why we expect you to educate them, and reform them from their thickheaded ways.
(But seriously: they're comparing observed data to that pulled out of a book that's be copied and re-copied ad nauseum — and that's before it even got translated into English — and they're claiming that whenever the two don't match, it's the copied/re-copied/translated one that's always correct? Blind faith truly scares me.)
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