and most resembles Baron Howard as a freshman

[jaina]

I just got the most amazing little flyer in the mail. It's from the Geocentric Bible Foundation, and it informs me that scientists have actually been wrong all these years, and in fact the sun (and all the other planets, I suppose) revolve around the Earth. Choice excerpts:

As R.G. Elmendorf wrote in the Biblical Astronomer pamphlet, "The philosophical consequences of the geocentric/heliocentric controversy are plain enough that if the earth is not fixed on center stage of the universe, then life on earth and man himself are essentially meaningless."

O NOES!

All phenomena-- including the stationary satellite thousands of miles above the earth-- are better explained by geocentricity.

You mean the moon? Er, I'm pretty sure that one's explained by gravity?

Really, this thing is astonishing. They even have a website. It's very special.

If tomorrow I get a flyer from the Flat-Earth Society, I'm not going to be in the least surprised.

Comments

[jawajames.livejournal.com]

the scary thing is that somehow they have the money to send you flyers in the mail.
i wonder if the discovery of intelligent life out there will cause this group to implode - if the earth is no longer center stage but rather has to share the stage with Tau Ceti VI... then poof!

as for gravity - there could be alternative theories for that. like that every mass is ballooning up in volume at every moment.. (scott adams highlighted this theory in the Dilbert Future)

[rosiewook.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking the same thing, James.

Even scarier is how you ended up on their mailing list. Do you care to share something with us? :)

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

Ah, on this point I can defend myself! It wasn't addressed to me specifically, just to "current resident." So they have the funds to do *mass* mailings, and that is truly scary. (It says they're a non-profit based in Wichita.)

[wendyhouse.livejournal.com]

aww....
somehow that's just so, I don't know, cute :)

[raykel.livejournal.com]

Why yes, I always turn to my Bible to answer questions of science. Just like I always turn to my chemistry book to answer questions of theology.

[jawajames.livejournal.com]

Dear chem book, how is Jesus both fully man and fully divine?
chem book: Ionic bonds!

[morwen_peredhil]

It all makes perfect sense!

In other news, I reject the demonic theory of gravity in favor of INTELLIGENT FALLING.

[padawansguide.livejournal.com]

Wow. o_O

[jedihealer.livejournal.com]

OMG, it's a good thing we have free speech in this country so we can be certain that such wonderful ideas are not lost.

Should we expect a kool aid party in the near future?

[portnoyslp.livejournal.com]

All phenomena-- including the stationary satellite thousands of miles above the earth-- are better explained by geocentricity.

You mean the moon? Er, I'm pretty sure that one's explained by gravity?

No, dear, not gravity -- geocentricity. Apparently, their theory is not that masses attract equally, but that everything is attracted to the Earth, and thus spins around it.

It's really cool -- in order for the theory to work, you also have to postulate that the entire universe is filled with dark matter, and has these roving gravitational fields that create the monthly and yearly perturbations we see.

Oh, and dragons. I'm betting they have to have dragons somewhere too.

[gmtarkin.livejournal.com]

I don't think they are specific enough. Clearly they have missed the fact that everything in the universe is attracted to *me*. I just happen to be on earth. If I got on a spaceship and went to Mars, you guys would just have to get used to a colder, moon-less sky. :-)

Can I have one of the dragons?

[sirrogue.livejournal.com]

LOL, that is awesome. I knew you had a sort of cosmic quality about you...

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

Geocentricity has dragons? Dude, sign me up!

[dm-lunsford.livejournal.com]

Man, stuff like this just pains me. *sigh*