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Re: My Rant About Science vs. Religion - April 3rd 2009, 01:37 AM
And who said I was talking about scripture?

Religious leaders locked Copernicus up and forced him to retract his statement that the Sun was the centre of the solar system because the theory was that the earth was at the centre.

Religion =/= Scripture. The former is based on the latter but on it's own the latter is just a text document like this post. If enough people saw this as divine the it would become scripture

Edit: this point only applies to Christianity

Edit 2: Psalm 93:1, Psalm 96:10, and I Chronicles 16:30 state that "the world is firmly established, it cannot be moved." Psalm 104:5 says, "[the Lord] set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved." Ecclesiastes 1:5 states that "the sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises."

the first two imply the Earth is set in space and does not orbit the sun as that would be movement
Last edited by Hyper Sonic; April 3rd 2009 at 01:41 AM. Reason: wrong person, my point still stands though