Scientific errors in the Bible

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Originally posted by Percipient:

w_fortenberry writes: Where is the point about which you propose the sun and the earth orbit?

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I was talking about the earth/moon system, but the earth/sun system also orbits a common point. The sun is so much more massive than the earth, more than a million times, that that point is probably well within the sun's surface.

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Indeedy, this is how the planet seekers go about their business. The star "appears" to wobble about a point within its own volume. The larger & closer the planet, the larger the wobble. The system rotates about it's own center of gravity. Because stars are so massive relative to their planetary systems, that point is feasably always within the star itself.Mark------------------
Occam's razor is not for shaving with.[This message has been edited by mark24, 11-14-2002]

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And of course the rest of the universe remains "fixed" on the sun. Meaning the entire universe wobbles 186 million miles every years.Mark

Geo, But it doesn't, from a terran frame of reference, the universe rotates around & orbits the sun. If you want to describe the universe relative to the earth, the entire universe wobbles 186 million miles every year as it rotates about us, which just so happens to be twice the distance from the earth to the sun. Evidence suggests then that even from an Einsteinian POV, either the universe rotates about the sun, or the sun rotates within the universe. Now, given the huge distance of other stars relative to a rotating sol, they must travel at many times the speed of light in order to describe a circle about the sun. The evidence is therefore consistent with a rotating sun, about which the earth revolves. Unless you are breaking General relativistic rules, that is.Mark[This message has been edited by mark24, 08-04-2003]

Geo, The corollory of which is that stars are travelling faster than light in order to rotate about us and/or the sun.Mark[This message has been edited by mark24, 08-04-2003]