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Re:Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious by duaneb on Thursday October 06, 2016 @12:26PM (#12653758)
I don't believe there are any geocentric claims in scripture. To what scripture are you referring?
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Re:Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious by livingparadox on Thursday October 06, 2016 @12:29PM (#12653779)
To my understanding, its just a number of verses that express things in the same kinds of phrases we use today (e.g., "the sun stood still", "the sun rose").
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Re:Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious by andrewflnr on Saturday October 08, 2016 @02:46PM (#12668067)
We still use that language today, knowing full well that Earth orbits the sun.
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