Eclipse Correction...
In The Earth Is Not Moving (pp.207-214) there is a piece entitled "Eclipses" wherein I attempted to show that the direction of the moon’s shadow on the earth during a solar eclipse would be different in the heliocentric model from what it actually is, thereby revealing a classic flaw in the heliocentricity model.
Alas, it turns out that the direction is the same in both the geocentric and the heliocentric models, and I regret that error.
There is still an upside for Biblical Geocentricity in this particular phenomena, however
. Consider the incredibly precise information about the location, direction, speed, expiration, etc., of these eclipse shadows that calculations based on a fixed earth had always provided before the Copernican Model was widely accepted. But even more interesting--as even our encyclopedias tell us--precise calculations regarding eclipse shadow movements that are still relied upon today are based upon a non-moving earth! This is quite astonishing, is it not? Here we have this singular example of indisputable mathematical precision--unfailingly certified with every solar eclipse--being based on a stationary earth which, of course, is universally declared to be non-existent and anathema to modern science!Those who would say that there are mathematics based on a moving earth that give the same results are talking nonsense. Whatever different math symbols are used to fit a moving earth
must ultimately be the same as the non-moving earth math or the predictions would fail. Only one set of calculations can be the right one; any other would be different and would produce different results. This simple fact still provides very strong evidence for the Biblical Model of a non-moving earth...whether the shadow goes the same way in both models or not.
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