A Special Note
for
Geocentricity Advocates
There is a certain type of person in our society who believes he/she knows the truth about certain given subjects, when in fact that person’s “knowledge” is simply a regurgitation of incorrect information they have read from a book or heard from someone else. Often, this person will appear to take pleasure in denigrating others who have contrary views on certain matters. More often than not, his/her target is correct, and they are incorrect. This is especially true relative to the interminable heliocentrism/geocentrism controversy.
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Whether you are a ‘new’ geocentrist or an ‘old’ geocentrist, you are probably aware that a prime target selected by certain persons (who lack sufficient knowledge to even discuss the subject in question) is geocentrists in particular. In an apparent attempt to remove any doubt of their total ignorance concerning geocentrism, you probably have heard certain persons voice such comments as “I once read a whole geocentric website. Never laughed harder in my life.” or, “You people must be some real knuckle-draggers. Haven’t you ever heard of science?” Such comments illustrate the level of those individuals’ reasoning ability and causes one to wonder at that particular level of ‘reasoning ability’ that prompts them to speak through dense ignorance about a subject for which they obviously lack sufficient knowledge to discuss coherently.
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Those persons who enjoy ridiculing geocentrists apparently consider themselves to be dyed-in-the-wool heliocentrists (although they do not seem to really know all that much about heliocentricity). For example:
a. They do not know that the heliocentric hypothesis is a factless, lame and useless “sacred cow” of the theoretical science establishment.
b. They most likely do not know that the hypothesis had its origin in ancient pagan sun-worship, made its way through the ancient Greek philosophers et al to a late-medieval astronomer/astrologer and eventually into modern “science” as the keystone of the “correct” cosmological paradigm.
c. It does not seem to matter to those individuals that there is no unambiguous evidence to support heliocentricity; they are perfectly happy wallowing in the heliocentric garbage fed them in school, and using it to denigrate geocentrists.
d. In their zeal to ridicule geocentrists, certain persons obviously do not know that to this day, the Earth rotates on an axis and revolves around the sun only in a mathematical model.
However, a correct view of the universe seems to be of secondary concern to certain people; their greater pleasure appears to be simply to ridicule anyone who holds a contrary view to their acquired ignorance of the structure and mechanics of the universe.
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Those sad anti-geocentric individuals never try to falsify any part of geocentrism, nor do they offer any irrefutable scientific evidence supportive of heliocentricity. All they ever appear to be interested in is ridiculing geocentrists:
a. by means of attacks on the persons of the geocentrists;
b. by making disparaging remarks relating to the mental stability of geocentrists;
c. by inferring that geocentrists are of a lower intelligence level than most others;
d. by flatly stating that geocentrists are unscientific (although a number of geocentrists hold
science doctorates);
e. by insisting that geocentrists have no proof of their claims; and
f. by many other similar denigrating remarks.
All the while they offer nothing that proves any of the tenets of geocentrism are untrue or unprovable. They seem to take pride in showing their general ignorance.
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Admittedly, anti-geocentric individuals do defend their heliocentric viewpoint, but that is usually restricted to saying that “science” has proven this and that about heliocentricity. Sadly, they do not realize that “science” has proven nothing, not one thing, about heliocentricity. Nor do they realize that the claims of geocentrism can be proven, while heliocentricity is devoid of proof. Such is the result of ignorance.
Those persons who take pleasure in ridiculing geocentrists in the belief that “scientific evidence” is on their side should learn and remember a few things about the “scientists” who produce the “facts” they believe in. To start with, it would be well to remember that:
a. Some 99% of scientists today repeat what they “know” from something they have read; so, there are very few of them who have any first-hand information regarding what they are spouting. They are effectively “Textbook Geniuses”. They can regurgitate what they have read, but few have researched the many issues themselves.
b. Ph.D.s all lined up in a row saying the same things does not make “science”. It makes a mutual admiration society clubhouse where the popular vote wins, not the scientific method; and since they have long since eliminated anyone who disagrees with them, they are free to say whatever they wish, unopposed.
This does make one wonder if today’s “science” actually qualifies as true Science. Actually, those who prefer fables over facts really do not care.
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For any heliocentrist individuals who might actually be reading this essay, below is an excerpt from a recent letter that may be interesting.
"I read part of an article online that had a curious statement in it.
The statement was, “Geocentrism is not falsifiable.”
Of course it is. Just prove that the Earth is rotating about an axis and orbiting the sun. What could be more simple?
Another part of the article lamented the fact that science is not provable (referring to the heliocentric hypothesis).
Wrong. True science is always provable, theoretical science never is.
I must be missing something here. If one proposition (a) cannot be proven false and its counter-proposition (b) cannot be proven true, would that not indicate that (a) is true and (b) is false? Or, is that what philosophers call an argument from ignorance? However, if (a) has been proven true by observation and experiment while (b) has never been proven true, why bother trying to prove (b), since (a) and (b) cannot both be true at the same time? Then, argument from ignorance does not even come into play. As it is, ~50 percent of Americans apparently believe the sun orbits the Earth (From a USA Today Survey, 6/99).
Since geocentrists have substantial evidence that Earth is stationary and heliocentrists have no evidence that Earth is moving, one could wonder what all the controversy is about. Unless, it is simply the heliocentrists are protecting their worldview by ignoring or rejecting the geocentrists’ evidence and doing a great 'debunking' and coverup job in the process. If so, it’s a sad thing that protecting a worldview should be more important than the truth."
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What all this amounts to is that anti-geocentric persons who do nothing more than denigrate geocentrists with personal attacks and disrespectful comments without offering anything constructive relative to geocentricity/heliocentricity do nothing more than show their own ignorance. It would be well if they did offer irrefutable proof supporting heliocentricity or could definitely disprove geocentricity; then we would all be spared the incessant inane blathering of those spouting "informed opinion" they have read, or heard from their selected 'genius' or ‘geniuses’.
Thomas E. Cobb
“We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.” --Daniel Boorstin (U.S. Librarian of Congress Emeritus)