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To: lorrie coey who wrote (78204)	4/15/2000 4:29:00 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 108807

I agree with you. It is rediculus to make reference to the Earth as the center of the Universe in this age of scientific discovery, or to make reference to the theories of a man who has been discredited on every plane of scientific inquiry. Besides how can the Earth be the center of the Universe when I am the center of the Universe.

To: lorrie coey who wrote (78204)	4/17/2000 11:20:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Yes, I actually studied that Ptolemaic system, and the transition to the Copernican system. There are a few things to note: although the devices used to account for anomalies in the Ptolemaic system might have been simplified by moving to heliocentricism, it did not become clear until the invention of the telescope that there was no alternative. Second, the reason for Ptolemy's preference for the geocentric hypothesis was not naive appearance, but the faulty use of a priori reasoning, assuming that the unmodified version of Aristotle's metaphysics was correct, and therefore that the hierarchy of being was from the realm of contingency, on earth, ascending to the Prime Mover. Third, the modifications forced on Aristotelianism by the need to correlate with the Bible made it easier to entertain the heliocentric hypothesis in the long run.......