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Originally Posted by Nicolas
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True science is supposed to be based on observation. We see the array of stars wheeling around the earth approximately daily, and we motorize our telescopes to follow their steady motion. We see the sun rising and setting daily. We see the planets doing roughly the same thing, and we see the moon following them on a somewhat different schedule, all revolving around the earth as our eyes testify.
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True science is about matching theory to observations -all observations- and does allow for grasping concepts such as relative motion and optical illusion. |
Yeah this is the most specious argument of the Geocentrics, I think. Do they really think that if they all stood on the moon that their eyes would testify that the moon is moving and the earth isn't?
I've actually argued with one of them who, in between rants about how I worship dirt, kept insisting that the reason why Nasa didn't film the earth moving from the moon was because they couldn't due to the earth not moving
