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.)