Copernicanism and Darwinism can't be
separated!
For example: Careful reading of reports of the Scopes
Trial (Dayton, TN, 1925) shows that evolutionists led by Clarence Darrow
tried and succeeded in embarrassing William Jennings Bryan by taunting
him about Copernicanism. One hot July day "...as court recessed,
Bryan was asked by a bystander if he believed Joshua had commanded the
sun to stand still. He replied angrily that while he would always
answer honest questions, `somebody told you to ask me that question. It
is asked for no other purpose than to insult me'. He stalked
away...." (Six Days Or Forever? by Ray Ginger, Oxford U.
Press, p.125.)
Before the jury was sworn in, "Hays...excited a
little interest by reading a statute he had drafted which decreed the
death penalty for anybody who taught the Copernican theory in the public
schools. If the Butler Act is valid, said Hays, so is this. The
comparison was not original with him: both supporters and opponents of
the Butler Act had already used it to flog Bryan." (Ibid. p.104)
Also, as most Creationists know, both versions of the
Hollywood pro-evolutionary flicks (Inherit The Wind) used the
same strategy to good dramatic effect for the evolution cause. I myself
encountered this specific form of ridicule while debating a scientist
from Notre Dame on Public TV in South Bend several years ago. Perhaps
you have run into a similar situation a time or two. If you have
(and if
you tend to equate geocentrists with flat-earthers) you know why Bryan
got frustrated and reacted angrily when someone popped him a taunt about Copernicanism. After all, Bryan knew that an anti-Copernican, geocentric
earth is an integral part of Biblical Creation, but he also
"knew"...as the whole literate world thought it
"knew" by then...that science "had proven" that the
earth rotated on an "axis" daily and orbited around the sun
annually.
Given then, the demonstrated effectiveness of
leveling Copernican taunts at Creationists, one may wonder why
Evolutionists don't "flog" them more than they do with this
weapon.
I venture some reasons why they don't:
1) Excepting a growing handful, Creationists embrace
Copernicanism as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world. Like everybody
else, they learned it and they believe it is as solidly established as a
scientific fact as their evolutionary adversaries now believe evolution
to be.
2) Copernicanism has 450 years of increasingly
sophisticated indoctrination behind it. Modern evolutionism is young by
comparison, but still obviously dominates in the Universities, etc., and
has for some time. Give it another generation or two and if any
Creationists remain they will be viewed as being just as ridiculously
eccentric as geocentrists are viewed now. In other words--goes this
reasoning--there is no
need to flog or taunt Creationists about Copernicanism for they are an
increasingly harmless breed on its way to de facto extinction in due
time anyway (just like those other geocentrists who fought Copernicanism for a
couple of centuries).
3) The most important reason why evolutionists don't
taunt modern Creationists about Copernicanism is also the most subtle
because it is the most spiritual. Bible honoring Creationists know that
the wrestling match they are in is with Satan and his minions rather
than men per se (Eph.6:12). If you are one who believes that, test this
hypothesis and see where you come out: IF Copernicanism, like
evolutionism, is a masterful deception from Satan designed specifically
to weaken and ultimately destroy the Bible's credibility, would the
Devil use every "angel of light" trick in the book to prevent
Creationists from making the Spiritual connection between Copernicanism
and Darwinism?? Would he use fear of taunts, false pride, apathy, false
teachers and counselors, specious scientific arguments, anything,
anything at all to prevent today's anti-evolution Creationists from
becoming also anti-heliocenticity Creationists??
It's something to think about, isn't it?
God, thru His Word, teaches a non-moving and
immovable earth just as surely as he teaches a six-day Creation 6000
years ago and a universal Flood some 1600 years later. All attempts to
twist and even boldly reverse geocentric Scriptures by claiming
that God just used a "language of appearance" are extremely
reckless for the Christian devoted to the inerrancy of Scripture. After
all, the same argument has been employed with near devastating effect
upon the Creationist Movement by Theistic Evolutionists, has it not?
Attacking vulnerable Copernicanism is a strategy that
outflanks the entire secular science establishment (overrunning the
Theistic Evolutionist's position in the process!)
In addition to all that, being men and women of sound
mind (II Tim. 1:7), Creationists should be eager to learn that:
1) No
one--not Copernicus, not Kepler, not Galileo, not Newton, not Einstein,
not Sagan--absolutely
no one has proven the earth to be moving.
2) The earth moves only
thru an observation-denying, wholly assumption-based, contra-scientific
Mathematical Model that is wide-open to a head-on attack.
3) Over 200 truly
scientific experiments using real mathematics have shown no earth
movement, and these had the science establishment in a panic from the
1880's until Einstein came to the rescue in 1905 with his "relativity"
hypothesis.
4)
Relativity is pure claptrap and there isn't a person reading this who can't
know that fact.
5) Foucault's Pendulum, the Coriolis Effect, and
geostationary satellites do not prove a moving earth.
6) Anyone
can see that the results of the Michelson-Morley experiments--especially
the light fringe results--prove a stationary earth; and other facts
about eclipses, satellite re-positionings, alleged blinding earth
speeds, gravitational hooey, etc., add to the proof. Moreover, the Big
Bang Baloney, the growing awareness of the effect of Dark Matter on
galactic speeds, parallax factors (HERE)
which shrink the cosmos, the evidence for speed-of-light
retardation, the behavior of reflections and their capabilities for
producing phenomena regarding
size and depth, etc., all combine to corroborate the certitude of a
greatly sanforized universe (one no more than
one light day thick: Start
HERE), a universe
put in diurnal rotation around the spiritual and physical center of
God's Creation, just exactly as it appears to be day in and day out.
7)
The Bible not only flatly states scores of times (HERE)
and in several ways (HERE)
that
the earth does not move, it actually has a built-in geocentric assumption--sun
rise, sun set--from beginning to end. (One scholar, a geocentrist and
mathematician, is cataloguing some 2000 (!) of these.)
In the beginning, the Bible makes clear, the earth
was the center of our "solar" system, with no sun for it to go
around until the 4th day of creation (Gen.1:14-19;
HERE). At the End we read
of a New Earth (HERE)
replacing in the same location this old one (Rev. 20:11;
21:1,2). This New Earth which occupies the same location in the cosmos
as the old one which has "fled away" is the place where God
the Father and Jesus will dwell with the redeemed forever (Rev. 21:3).
Given that unpreached but clear teaching, do you
think that God the Father and Jesus the Son will eternally be somewhere
out on the edge of Their NEW Universe in the boonies...or at the center? |