> Allen wrote,
> < It clearly says the sun is moving around the earth.
> Nowhere does the Bible say or infer that the earth is moving rather than the
> sun. Indeed, as Luther pointed out, the world (the earth upon which man
> dwells) is fixed and cannot be moved (Psa 93:1; 96:10).
> If "sound Biblical thinking" means that scientifically acquired data is
> interpreted within the Biblical paradigm, then you must join Luther in
> rejecting Copernicanism.
Of course your basic argument is correct but can we finally give Luther a
break on this? He certainly thought the sun went around the earth but so did
virtually everyone else in the mid-16th century. It's hardly fair to pick out an
after-dinner remark that a student remembered him as saying several years later &
use it to represent him as dogmatically anti-Copernican. Donald Kobe's article,
"Copernicus and Martin Luther: an encounter between science and religion" in
_American Journal of Physics_ 66 (3), March 1998, 190--196, is worth consulting in
George L. Murphy
"The Science-Theology Interface"
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