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Entry: Fads, Tradition, and Real Knowledge Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/fads_tradition_and_real_knowledge#24357 Post contents: Good article. @ Mr Cundiff Question for you: How has civlisation been bettered by heliocentrism and the partisanship derived from the Galileo affair ? How does heliocentrism help us save our souls and keep peace in our families ? What does it have to do with morals and doctrine, and how does it affect social stability and uphold good customs ? In so far as the movement of the sun and the earth is a completely academic question -- for navigators at sea still rely on good ol' geocentric tradition -- who should care about it but a very small minority of physicists and astronomers ? Every day, I become more enamoured with geocentrism because of the sentiment; as a bonus, it enrages the worldly to doubt the movement of the Earth. Why would it matter if I decided to be a geocentrist ? "Only fools who do not use their reason hold that position, which contradicts all scientific evidence and is based on superstition and obscurantist scriptural literalism !" Believe you me, the necessity of making this silly stigma to serve a certain agenda likely had more to do with the universal acceptance of heliocentrism than the studies of scientists did. Galileo rashly disobeyed a direct command from his superiour without a grave reason. Until he recanted, he was indeed a fool. Sent at: 2008 07 20