Laugh at your own ignorance, the sun is the center of the universe whether you want to accept it or not.
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Sad thing is, he's even trying to argue against RichardT (in a thread ABOUT this site, no less!), who defends the idea that geocentrism is plausible.
The Sun isn't even at the center of our galaxy. I'm sorry, but the Sun is an average star on the outskirts of an average galaxy with billions of stars just like it, and our galaxy is just one in a universe full of galaxies just like it.
Even if this was anywhere close to the truth (and it isn't, but just supposing), so what? The star that heats this planet isn't special. It doesn't do anything different than any other start of its type does. It wouldn't change anything, and it wouldn't prove that any sort of mythological being exists.
And if it was the center of the universe, why then isn't it at the center of its own galaxy?
Read your Douglas Adams, Jacob!
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea...
(figured that had to be simpler than stepping through the proof for dark matter, and then dark energy)
Technically speaking, since the universe is contiuously expanding, and could be virtually infinite, I could as easily argue that my sweet little rosebud arsehole is the centre of the universe.
Give it a nice, sloppy wet kiss!
No, the earth is the center of the universe. And America is the center of the earth, and the Baptist Church is the center of America, and I'm the center of the Baptist Church! So the whole universe revolves around ME ! [/sarcasm]
Actually, due to the continued expansion of the universe, every point in it sees itself as the center. The standard example is to think of blowing up a balloon with dots drawn all over it. Pick a dot, any dot, and as the balloon expands, this dot sees all the others receding away from it. Of course, gravity rules locally.
The observable universe is finite, but expanding at an ever-increasing rate.
Human stupidity, on the other hand, appears to be infinite.
Well, one error I've seen in these replies is that because the sun is not at the center of the galaxy, it can't be at the center of the universe. If the universe had a central point, the sun could be there without being at the center of the galaxy.
Of course, even if it were the case, everything in space is moving. So we wouldn't be at the center for very long. And anyway, you're not as important as you think!
Well, as a previous poster said, the sun, like everything else, is on the surface of a hypersphere, so actually nothing is the center of the universe. Or everything is, depending on how youlook at it.
"Holy crap, every scientist since the dawn of time must be spinning in their graves enough to cause earthquakes after this comment was posted."
I say we wrap them in copper wire and harness their energy to solve global energy crises! The Christians will think it's a miracle, and we'll just have more!
wrong on both sides!
Kudos
A candidate for the 'Moving the Goalposts' award indeed.
After all...:
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...didn't your literal 'Word of God declare the above to be the model of the entire universe, before Atheistic Soviet space scientists destroyed that "Truman Show"-esque solid 'dome' - as per your literal Bible - with a Vostok rocket sending up Sputnik-1 in 1957...?!
@The Flying Spaghetti Monster
And even the RCC centuries later had to admit that Galileo was right all along.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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