(March 29, 2021 at 4:48 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: The reason why no one is adding to it has to do with scientific revolutions and paradigm shifts, not because of its "proven" wrong:
cycles were added but they were disproven when the new methods of observations were discovered, as well as the new approach to science. It was seen that objects like moons of Jupiter don't orbit the Earth and the rest followed. It was no paradigm, it was simple observation.
(March 29, 2021 at 4:48 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: "Although it is not uncommon for people to say that Copernicus proved Ptolemy wrong, that is not true. As in the case of our normal view versus that of the goldfish, one can use either picture as a model of the universe, for our observations of the heavens can be explained by assuming either the earth or the sun to be at rest" -Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design.
Maybe Copernicus didn't prove geocentrism wrong, but Galileo did.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"