I love the irony of the line; "Those who see the universe as the handiwork of the benevolent God need no longer be subservient to fairy tales." I also find it amusing that the keynote speaker has a Ph.D. in theology, not science of any branch. Leave the theology to the theologians and science to the scientists.

I've heard that Galileo's trouble with the church had more to do with the impolite way he handled his report. In any event, apparently not all self-described Catholics take the current Vatican position. Like Scott, I thought there was about a 50% chance the website was sarcastic.

These people will use cellphones and satellite communications to arrange this conference.

They'll get travel plans and weather forecasts based on NOAA satellites.

To be fair, nothing about that sounds contrary to geocentrism. Asserting a flat Earth would make satellite use a little awkward.

Also, if we went by only reason and not faith, there'd be little incentive for ethics in experiments.

These idiots are making reasonable Christians look stupid for believing in the same God.

But they have the sattelite issue worked out! Aerospace uses a geocentric coordinate system to fly the sattelites. (Duh! After all, they aren't leaving the earth's gravity well and don't care about anything outside a geocentric orbit...)

ROFLMAO!!!

These guys are serious!

Oxygen transport by heme rings, and f orbitals of metals, and self assembly order of liquid crystals, and making vanilla extract from paper mash...

dreamy sigh

Are they espousing Ptolemaic or Tychonic geocentrism? I don't want to even look at the site lest my eyeballs explode.

Ptolemaic: everything goes around Earth.

Tychonic: everything goes around the Sun, which goes around the Earth.

Still bullshit, but qualitatively different bullshit.

According to Wikipedia, Catholic Apologists International (the group behind this tripe) embraces the Tychonic systems, so that they don't have to justify why Mercury and Venus are never more than 48˚ away from the Sun.

Also:
"In terms of the influential philosophy of science stemming from the work of Karl Popper, such non-falsifiable claims qualify as metaphysics and are not properly formulated scientific hypotheses."

In response:
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