ChristianTrader
Puritan Board Graduate
For what it's worth, heliocentrism and geocentrism are usually used in the context of deciding what is the center of the solar system, not the universe.
And to speak as if one view is correct (even as a personal belief) is to presume that motion is absolute rather than relative, and is therefore fallacious.
At best, all one could say is that we cannot scientifically determine what is moving and what is at rest. (Not that I personally accept this position)
Therefore the Bible cannot speak on the topic? The Bible can only speak on topics that science has already spoke concerning?
CT
No, that's not what I'm saying. My point is that, by virtue of the very nature of motion, it is impossible to say that something is moving absolutely. This means that all talk of motion must be interpreted in terms of the reference point. This means that, with Joshua as the reference point, the sun really did stop moving across the sky. And if we take the sun as the reference point, then the earth stopped rotating.
I'm not sure what the big deal is. No one is attacking the authority of Scripture.
You are confusing motion with the ability to find a non arbitrary reference point. If God says in the Bible, that the earth is fixed and everything else moves around it, our concept of motion does not/would not change. The only thing that would change is our view of what is the absolute reference point.
CT