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The Earth is NOT a Planet. Planet Means "Wanderer"
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment: I quickly read what thru your website; it's a fascinating, contrarian exposition. I would not necessarily dismiss what you have written except for this contra-indication. All the other planets we can see from Earth rotate on their axis. Why should the Earth be the only planet which does not? Without getting extraordinarily "technical" this issue seems fundamental to dispute via your thesis. L. C. Vincent Response 1: That's the point. We are on a stationary platform where we can see their rotation. No one has ever “seen” or detected a motion of the Earth. It’s all an illusion, an assumption based upon an indispensable requirement of a mathematical model (which also requires the moon to go backwards, the sun and the stars to stand still, and a half dozen other assumptions that no one has ever seen).
The two Audio sessions on “Copernicanism is False Science” HERE takes the Copernican Model apart piece by piece. It is a montage of assumptions with nary a fact in sight. Marshall Hall
Response 2: "Earth be the only planet" and what part of Earth gives us the idea that it is just like any or all those “planets” folk keep referring to? ... the fact that they are round?! ... um ... it must be all that vegetation, water and intelligent life out there on all of those numerous other "planets" that give equivalence to the Earth and other planets ... or observations of motion and centrality in the universe ... where did folk get the idea that the Earth is just another “planet” ... sure we call it “planet Earth” but just because I call it the Holy Roman Empire does not make it Holy or Roman or even a Empire ... the lesson in all of this is ... you use whatever terms you want to, however just because you call several things all "planets" does not mean they are one and the same things in reality. The Earth is special - both observationally and experimentally it is the center of the universe and does not have any demonstrable motion ... umm ... unlike all of those other things out there that appear to move around it ... you want to call all those things planets ... so be it ... but just because you call the Earth a planet ... well ... means absolutely nothing in terms of a logical argument for its motion ... it only demonstrates the terminology within a language not necessarily any particular reality based on logic observation or experience ... and the reality is that there is no similarity of Earth with any of those other things folks call "planets" ... nothing wrong calling Earth a planet but don’t confuse yourself with your own idioms and don’t think you offer a logical argument by simply calling everything the same thing ... just because I call every color in the rainbow blue does not mean anything with color in it is just another same thing...?!? Allen Daves
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