Catholic heliocentrism: no apology necessary

[skooshje]

I've been following a few pro-science/anti-creationist blogs for the last couple of months, and thanks to one of them, I have discovered that evolution is not the only widely held scientific orthodoxy to be attacked by religious fundamentalists and Biblical literalists.  It turns out that a Catholic apologist website has issued a Geocentrism

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[owentrout]

Before you completely give up on Christian cosmology, if you're truly interested in giving it a chance, read John Byl's God and Cosmos.

I have a copy down in storage in Binghamton. If you don't want to buy it, I can maybe find it the next time we go down, and I'll bring it up for you to borrow, but you should buy it anyway.

Interestingly, one Amazon reviewer describes it as an "anti-cosmology" book. While not quite true, I think that that's actually a fairly good description of it.

Byl does a good job (in my opinion) of doing justice to both the geocentric model and the heliocentric model, and he is a much kinder to geocentrists than most while still not really agreeing with them.

-john.
http://trawlerman.blogspot.com

Re: If only I were a believer

[skooshje]

If by "giving it a chance," you mean, "entertain the possibility of believing in it," then I'd have to say no. Christian-specific cosmologies are somewhat interesting to me, but only in a comparative-religion kind of sense. It's much the same way I'm interested in Hindu mythology or the minutiae of Islamic law. In fact, while exploring Catholic positions on cosmology in the course of writing this post, I had the same sort of feeling that I get while researching arguments for why women are freer (or can be) in Islam than many people think: "This is great! It's too bad I disbelieve the entire framework of the discussion, and the terms in which the issues are being framed