Does the Earth Revolve Around the Sun?

[northzax]

Poll question: Does the Earth Revolve Around the Sun?

hey, it makes as much sense as the 'do you believe in Evolution' threads. :shrug:

[Angry Girl]

1. 20% of Americans think the sun orbits the earth!

Twenty percent of Americans think the sun orbits the earth. Seventeen percent believe the earth revolves around the sun once a day (The Week, Jan. 7, 2005).

http://citypages.com/databank/26/1264/article12985.asp

[northzax]

3. I didn't ask them, I asked Duers.

Frankly, 20 percent of Americans can be convinced to believe anything. the question had nothing to do with belief, it simply asked a factual yes/no question.

[Angry Girl]

13. Your question has EVERYTHING to do with belief....

What is a fact? Is "gravity" a fact? No. In fact, we have TWO theories we use to explain it: One Newtonian and the other relativistic. Scientific principles are NOT facts. They are axioms that we presume are facts so that we may extrapolate a coherent theory. The coherence of a theory is measured by how well it explains what we observe.

The Earth may revolve around the Sun. Or it may simply *appear* to us that we revolve around the sun. We may all very well be in a collective trance that causes us to perceive the world this way. Naturally, this theory is not a likely one but there are no explicit "factual" contradictions either.

Everything is a matter of context and belief.

[porphyrian]

2. Copernicus was a witch!

You're all going to burn in hell!

[MamaBear]

4. Yes ...

The Flying Spagetti Monster told me so. May you be touched by his Noodly Appendage.

rAmen.

[DanCa]

5. I hear to get to Bush World you take a right at the unicorn

and than follow the rainbow of insanity.

[Dogmudgeon]

6. But the real question is ...

"Do you believe that the Earth orbits the Sun, and how does this affect your opinion on Goddess worship, smoking, spanking children, hunting, eating meat, voting for Hillary, and the methods of torture we should use to kill unconvicted pedophiles?"

The choices would be: "Huh?", "Traitor!" and "About 70"

--p!

[leveymg]

7. Galileo and Copernicus were foreigners and probably un-American.

Can't trust it unless it's in here, in the King's English, just like Jezus wrote it.

[Jack from Charlotte]

9. Yes. The "word" said them 2 guys was wrong so we must kill them....

for being blast-feemers. BTW, I missed that part of the Bible that said Copernicus and Galileo were wrong re their view of astronomy and also the part that states if you're wrong on astronomy we must kill you.

Anyone know where it said that in the Bible, exactly?

[RobertSeattle]

8. Another example where "Common Sense" fails miserably...

"Of course the sun revolves around the earth - how else does it rise in the east and set it in the west?"

[underpants]

10. I think it revolves around Angelina Jolie

evidence would suggest....

[adwon]

11. Doesn't matter much to me

Not like it's necessary information in my life :P.

[LostInAnomie]

12. No, but I do believe that when I go to sleep the world disappears...

... only to reappear when I wake up.

[Walt Starr]

14. I believe in the intelligent heavens

An intelligent designer makes it appear the earth revolves around the sun.

[triguy46]

15. No, of course it doesn't...

how could a flat earth revolve?