Thread: Would you delete a copy of the Koran?
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Old 09-14-2010, 06:31 PM   #56
WT Sharpe
Bah, humbug!
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Catholics weren't the only geocentrists!

.....People give ear to an upstart astrologer [Copernicus] who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon. Whoever wishes to appear clever must devise some new system, which of all systems is of course the very best. This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.
..........— Martin Luther (1483-1546), Father of the Reformation. Quoted in Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy (1945), Book Three, pt. I, ch. VI.

But I fear we are drifting more than a little off-topic here.
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