Animations courtesy of
“Galileo Was Wrong.”
Geocentrism holds that the earth is at the center of the universe and that the universe is compartmentalized into different parts.
Gravitation is a real force
Centrifugal force is a fictitious force
Coriolis force is a fictitious force
When forming a theory, the effect of the universe can be ignored
Quantum mechanics is separate from regular mechanics
Geocentrism has no room for the Bible
Geocentricity is an integrated approach to the universe
Gravitation is a real force
Centrifugal force is a real, gravitational force
Coriolis force is a real, gravitational force
When forming a theory, the effect of the universe must be considered
Quantum mechanics & regular mechanics originate from the rotating firmament
Geocentricity, as an integrated model, has room for the Bible
Geocentrism
Geocentricity
The Modified
Tychonic model
The Copernican Revolution
Proposed that the earth orbits the sun and rotates daily on an axis.
Knew it was against
Scripture, thus waited until he was about to die to publish it.
Was encouraged to do so by the Pope & head of the
Inquisition in 1535
Tycho Brahe
Believed geocentric universe is Scriptural
Built equipment to prove
Copernican model wrong
Greatest naked-eye astronomer of all time
Proposed a geocentric model that saved all appearances
Called the father of modern physics
Used a telescope to destroy the
Crystalline Sphere geocentrism
Insisted that Copernican model was proven, which got him in trouble with the Church of Rome
The Scriptures teach us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go.
It was moreover necessary in Scripture, in order that it be accommodated to the general understanding, to say things quite diverse ... from absolute truth ... physical effects placed before our eyes by sensible experience, … should not in any circumstances be called in doubt by passages in
Scripture that verbally have different semblance, since not everything in Scripture is linked to such severe obligations as is every physical effect.
Called before Inquisition in 1611 & warned
In 1633 wrote a book that made fun of the Pope
Called before Inquisition again
Was shown instruments of torture
As with his first trial, he was released to his villa and a pension provided him by the RCC on the grounds that he not teach heliocentrism as fact
Before he died he changed his mind and concluded that the Geocentric Model was true after all.
Aberration
Parallax
Retrograde motion of the planets
Foucault pendulum
Geostationary satellite
Earth as seen from the moon
Seasons
heliocentric & geocentric
Click on figure for animation
There are times when the planets go backwards
Heliocentric explanation
Geocentric explanation
Foucault
Pendulum
A Foucault pendulum is said to prove the rotation of the earth
It only demonstrates a relative rotation between earth and universe
It cannot tell which is actually rotating
Communications satellites etc. hover over one point on earth’s equator
Claim is that they should fall to earth
But
Recall that centrifugal force is a REAL,
GRAVITATIONAL force in geocentric model, not a fictitious force as in the heliocentric model
Geostationary satellite is not stationary as far as the universe is concerned
Astronauts on the moon saw the earth rotate
Therefore, we have proof that the Earth rotates, not the universe
A rider on a merry-go-round horse sees the central engine rotate
Therefore, we have proof that the engine rotates, not the merry-go-round platform
An experiment involving aberration
A water-filled telescope should be pointed further ahead than an airfilled telescope
Airy found they point the same
Implies the earth does not orbit the sun but that the star follows the sun in its yearly motion
Or Fresnell Drag, or Relativity ….
Tried to detect the motion of the earth about the sun
Found none
Found that geometry requires geocentricity and heliocentrism to yield identical results
Thus no experiment can prove one over the other
Inertia due to the gravity of all objects in the universe
An experiment related to the Michelson-Morley test
Designed to test for the rotation of the earth
Got a positive result
However, cannot tell if earth rotates or cosmos rotates about earth
By the early 1930s it was clear that there was a hidden medium underlying all of space
In the 1980s this was identified as the firmament of Genesis chapter 1.
Derived from a geocentric model in 1918
Paper in Physikalische Zeitschr . Vol. 19
Assumes universe is a shell rotating about the earth (or some central point)
Finds there should be an effect not discoverable in a heliocentric model
Gravity Probe B satellite etc. have apparently found it
Claimed to be proof of Relativity, but…
We know that the difference between a heliocentric theory and a geocentric theory is one of relative motion only, and that such a difference has no physical significance.
— Astronomy and Cosmology , 1975, p. 416.
The question of the earth’s motion was the single point in which orthodoxy came into real contact with science ... for the stability of the earth is as clearly assumed from one end of the Old
Testament to the other as the solidity of iron. Those who take the
Bible to be totidem verbis dictated by the God of Truth can refuse to believe it ... [but] ignorance apart, every word is truth, or the writer did not mean truth. But this puts the whole book on its trial: for we can never find out what the writer meant, unless we otherwise find out what is true. ... Common sense will either accept the verbal meaning or deny verbal inspiration.
—
Augustus de Morgan ,
1916 edition of A Budget of Paradoxes
Ecclesiastes 1:5
The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
Genesis 19:23 "The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.”
NOT literally true
Genesis 19:23 "The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.”
NOT literally true
Mark 16:9 "Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils."
Literally true
But unto you that fear my name shall the
Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
12 Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of
Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou,
Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of
Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of
Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Yearly solar motion about the earth
Tycho Brahe’s original model
Modified
Tychonic
Model
The Norwalt
Orrery set at the first day of winter.
12 Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of
Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou,
Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of
Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
Joshua’s Long Day
Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of
Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
Hezekiah’s
Sign