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first creationism, now geocentrism
May. 21st, 2007 05:20 pmI honestly can't tell if this is a fraud:
Blogs4Brownback: Heliocentrism is an Atheist Doctrine
Basically the argument goes like this: The Bible says the earth was created by God and is "fixed and unmoveable" (1 Chronicles 16:30, Psalm 93:1, Psalm 104:5) while the sun goes around the earth (Isaiah 45:18, Ecclesiastes 1:5, Joshua 10, 12-13). The Copernican assertion of heliocentrism, based on "abstract, abstruse, and esoteric mathematics," was devised as part of a political agenda to undermine the political and intellectual domination of the Bible.
I fear this isn't a hoax, because this is the next logical step down the slope after insisting on 6-literal-day-creationism. Actually, i take that back; it does not come after creationism because it is frankly less far-fetched. It is (**sobs**) more reasonable.
Elsewhere i read today that reactionary Christians and social conservatives are lamenting that they are behind liberals (and, one might add, libertarians) in developing a presence on the internet. Seeing links in this essay to sites like "Conservapedia" shows what it looks like when they try to catch up to the rest of us.
They cannot compete. They cannot compete in the fair marketplace of ideas, and this was demonstrated the first time scientists concluded heliocentrism was the better theory. But they are not really interested in honest competition; this is entirely about politics and money. They have been rounding up money by the hundreds of millions of dollars to pursue and promote these ideas, and have been quite bullisome about it. So because of their heavy-handedness, we unfortunately don't really get to have, in this generation at least, an open scientific examination of whether there could be intelligent design at the center of the universe. Academic reputations are already being ruined for scientists who research this, and shortly, no scientist at an accredited research facility will touch ID with a ten-foot pole.
Blogs4Brownback: Heliocentrism is an Atheist Doctrine
Basically the argument goes like this: The Bible says the earth was created by God and is "fixed and unmoveable" (1 Chronicles 16:30, Psalm 93:1, Psalm 104:5) while the sun goes around the earth (Isaiah 45:18, Ecclesiastes 1:5, Joshua 10, 12-13). The Copernican assertion of heliocentrism, based on "abstract, abstruse, and esoteric mathematics," was devised as part of a political agenda to undermine the political and intellectual domination of the Bible.
I fear this isn't a hoax, because this is the next logical step down the slope after insisting on 6-literal-day-creationism. Actually, i take that back; it does not come after creationism because it is frankly less far-fetched. It is (**sobs**) more reasonable.
Elsewhere i read today that reactionary Christians and social conservatives are lamenting that they are behind liberals (and, one might add, libertarians) in developing a presence on the internet. Seeing links in this essay to sites like "Conservapedia" shows what it looks like when they try to catch up to the rest of us.
They cannot compete. They cannot compete in the fair marketplace of ideas, and this was demonstrated the first time scientists concluded heliocentrism was the better theory. But they are not really interested in honest competition; this is entirely about politics and money. They have been rounding up money by the hundreds of millions of dollars to pursue and promote these ideas, and have been quite bullisome about it. So because of their heavy-handedness, we unfortunately don't really get to have, in this generation at least, an open scientific examination of whether there could be intelligent design at the center of the universe. Academic reputations are already being ruined for scientists who research this, and shortly, no scientist at an accredited research facility will touch ID with a ten-foot pole.
