This being Sunday, our thoughts naturally turn to true Religion. Happily, yesterday, the mailman delivered food for thought, addressed to a fellow named Resident who gets a lot of mail here, though I’ve never actually met him.
We all know that Religion and Science are now locked in a deadly battle. At the moment, the battle is over evolution. On one side we have science armed with mountains of evidence. On the other hand we have a book authored by some fools in the desert in which we have a fable about two people in a garden. Obviously that one’s too close to call, but we all thought that in at least some respects religion had conceded some scientific claims.
Not so. It turns out that opposing evolution is for wusses. If you’re going to deny masses of evidence, why not go whole hog? Real men, according to the Geocentric Bible Foundation, are into geocentrism. That’s right. Lo, though even the Catholic Church saw fit to admit it may have erred a teeny bit on the Galileo thing, true Christians soldier on.
If you’re truly interested, you can see larger views by clicking on the images.
Interestingly these folks seem to be geocentric-centric, in that among other things, they claim:
That the mobility of the earth is the only place where science and the Bible have come into real conflict, and is the starting point for all churches that have compromised the authority of Scripture.
Which might make for an interesting debate between the lunatics at the geocentric asylum and those at the Discovery Institute.
The pamphlet offers a free book for anyone who returns the postage paid postcard. A cynic might say that in the guise of a tax free religious organization, the geocentric folks have hit on a way to acquire one of the most valuable databases in the entire US. Can you imagine any list more precious than one of people who refuse to believe that the earth goes around the sun? If you can sell people on that one, you can sell them on anything.
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