Re:The Dalai Lama’s Daily Routine and Information Diet
by Nadya on Friday June 12, 2015 @05:36PM
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Everybody believed it because of science.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocentric_model#Ptolemaic_mod...
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The important takeaway:
"It has been determined, in fact, that the Copernican, Ptolemaic and even the Tychonic models provided identical results to identical inputs. They are computationally equivalent. It wasn't until Kepler demonstrated a physical observation that could show that the physical sun is directly involved in determining an orbit that a new model was required."
Re:The Dalai Lama’s Daily Routine and Information Diet
by crimsonalucard on Friday June 12, 2015 @05:48PM
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Theories can change. That is the nature of science, peer review and new observations. When the science on heliocentricity was developed, religion tried to warp reality as we know it and shove Galileo under a rug. Inevitably, reality won out, but not without cost. See famous story below:
Re:The Dalai Lama’s Daily Routine and Information Diet
by Nadya on Friday June 12, 2015 @05:58PM
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You're conflating the Catholic Church to cover all religions - as well as ignoring the politics behind the Galileo events.
You also seem to believe that Galileo was the creator of the heliocentric model. Please see my other reply. [0]
Everybody believed it due to religion, even when the science described a different reality.