Galileo Was Wrong, The Church Was Right: First Annual Catholic Conference on Geocentrism

[Guynemer]

No. Really.

http://www.galileowaswrong.com/galileowaswrong/

South Bend, Indiana, 6 November 2010.

The mind boggles.

Galileo Was Wrong is a detailed and comprehensive treatment of the scientific evidence supporting Geocentrism, the academic belief that the Earth is immobile in the center of the universe. Garnering scientific information from physics, astrophysics, astronomy and other sciences, Galileo Was Wrong shows that the debate between Galileo and the Catholic Church was much more than a difference of opinion about the interpretation of Scripture.

Scientific evidence available to us within the last 100 years that was not available during Galileo's confrontation shows that the Church's position on the immobility of the Earth is not only scientifically supportable, but it is the most stable model of the universe and the one which best answers all the evidence we see in the cosmos.

[Fve Crathva]

"To preregister... email to cairomeo@aol.com"

SP

[BlackCat]

Well, I guess that this proves that Ben is right and the rest of Poly is wrong

[-Jrabbit]

Holy crap!

[Cort Haus]

The Cafflix are excelling themselves this week.

[Barnabas]

[Al B. Sure!]

Galileo? Wasn't it Copernicus who asserted that the earth revolved around the sun?

[KrazyHorse]

Well, technically the belief that the Earth is unmoving at the center of the universe is a non-falsifiable hypothesis if you're willing to abandon the translational and rotational symmetries of the laws of physics.

[Boris Godunov]

Galileo? Wasn't it Copernicus who asserted that the earth revolved around the sun?

Holy **** Al, do you not know why Galileo was put on trial for heresy and confined to house arrest by the Catholic Church for the rest of his life?

[Cort Haus]

He may well do, but Copernicus postulated the heliocentric cosmology first.

[Al B. Sure!]

Copernicus came up with it. Galileo got in trouble for spreading Copernican ideas. This should technically be "Copernicus was wrong, the Church was right"

[Boris Godunov]

Copernicus came up with it. Galileo got in trouble for spreading Copernican ideas. This should technically be "Copernicus was wrong, the Church was right"

The Church didn't persecute Copernicus and ruin his life. That was Galileo, and the entire point of this stupidity is to try to exculpate the Church from wrongdoing.

[Hauldren Collider]

Doesn't official church doctrine support Galileo now? I thought John Paul II exonerated him.

[Al B. Sure!]

yes, of course...

The Inquisition's ban on reprinting Galileo's works was lifted in 1718 when permission was granted to publish an edition of his works (excluding the condemned Dialogue) in Florence.[119] In 1741 Pope Benedict XIV authorized the publication of an edition of Galileo's complete scientific works[120] which included a mildly censored version of the Dialogue.[121] In 1758 the general prohibition against works advocating heliocentrism was removed from the Index of prohibited books, although the specific ban on uncensored versions of the Dialogue and Copernicus's De Revolutionibus remained.[122] All traces of official opposition to heliocentrism by the church disappeared in 1835 when these works were finally dropped from the Index.[123]

These nuts are CENTURIES out of step of even the Catholic Church.

[Boris Godunov]

Doesn't official church doctrine support Galileo now? I thought John Paul II exonerated him.

That's why JP2 is pictured on the flyer along with the other vile heretics.