and most resembles Baron Howard as a freshman

[brightcupenny]

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

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[jedihealer]

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]

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]

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]

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

[brightcupenny]

Geocentricity has dragons? Dude, sign me up!

[dm_lunsford]

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