True objective science shows that there is more evidence that the Earth is still and that everything else moves, than that the Earth spins and moves, there are many studies (refuted ONLY by theory, ad-hoc theory) that show that the Earth is a still ball. The Bible NEVER explicitly states anything regarding the shape of the Earth BUT it tells us that the Earth is unmovable.
Take a look at the following:
Michelson-Morely experiment,
The Michelson-Gale experiment (Reference - Astrophysical Journal 1925 v 61 pp 140-5),
"Airey's failure" (Reference - Proc. Roy. Soc. London v 20 p 35),
The Sagnac experiment (Reference - Comptes Rendus 1913 v157 p 708-710 and 1410-3)
The results of the analysis of the Planck Satellite data, particularly the so-called "WMAP Axis of evil" lend further credence to the geocentrist's argument, causing many scientists in the field to demand that this area of science that aught to have been solved a long time ago and had much more funding and study.
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Quotes From Famous Scientists On Geocentrism *
"[W]e have[...] certainty regarding the stability of the Earth, situated in the center, and the motion of the sun around the Earth." - Galileo Galilei in letter to Francesco Rinuccini, March 29th, 1641
"[Redshifts] would imply that we occupy a unique position in the universe, analogous, in a sense, to the ancient conception of a central Earth[...] This hypothesis cannot be disproved" - Edwin Hubble in
The Observational Approach to Cosmology
"[A]ll this evidence that the universe looks the same whichever direction we look in might seem to suggest there is something special about our place in the universe. In particular, it might seem that if we observe all other galaxies to be moving away from us, then we must be at the center of the universe[...] We [reject] it only on grounds of modesty" - Stephen Hawking in
A Brief History of Time
"If the Earth were at the center of the universe, the attraction of the surrounding mass of stars would also produce redshifts wherever we looked! [This] theory seems quite consistent with our astronomical observations" - Paul Davies in
Nature
"I can construct you a spherically symmetrical universe with Earth at its center, and you cannot disprove it[...] A lot of cosmology tries to hide that." - George Ellis in
Scientific American
"The new results are either telling us that all of science is wrong and we're the center of the universe, or maybe the data is simply incorrect" - Lawrence Krauss, 2006
"[Without Dark Energy, Earth must be] literally at the center of the universe, which is, to say the least, unusual" - Lawrence Krauss, 2009
"I don't think [CMB maps] don't point toward a geocentric universe" - Max Tegmarck, 2011
MORE RELEVANT QUOTES
"[R]ed shift in the spectra of quasars leads to yet another paradoxical result: namely, that the Earth is the center of the Universe." - Y.P. Varshni in
Astrophysics and Space Science
"Earth is indeed the center of the universe." - Y.P. Varshni in
Astrophysics and Space Science
"If the universe possesses a center, we must be very close to it" - Joseph Silk in
The Big Bang: The Creation and Evolution of the Universe
"The uniform distribution of [gamma-ray] burst arrival directions tells us that the distribution of gamma-ray-burst sources in space is a sphere or spherical shell, with us at the center" - Jonathan Katz in
The Biggest Bangs: The Mystery of Gamma-Ray Bursts, the Most Violent Explosions in the Universe
"To date, there has been no general way of determining [that] we live at a typical position in the Universe" - Chris Clarkson et al. in
Physical Review Letters in 2008
It is interesting that Stephen Hawking has made comments that support geocentrism (on page 42 of ABHOT if I'm not mistaken, and also on the 42nd page of another book... 42... The meaning of life, the universe and everything?
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and if ol' Stevo has no scientific objection to geocentricity, but only views it as a choice based upon a philosophical standpoint (1. We are in a special location because we were created, 2, we are random and our location is random and not special) then it would be arrogant for any believer in the Copernican theory to call a geocentrist wrong, that is, unless they either believe themselves to be more intellectually intelligent than Dr. Hawking or to be privy to some form of observational or experimental evidence that he didn't have.
The geocentric model genuinely IS supported by SCRIPTURE and by SCIENCE.
The FLAT EARTH is not (though passages can be manipulated to claim otherwise, but contextually they absolutely do not!) supported by either.
Regardless, the shape of the Earth is not something that is necessary, we are to obey Torah and to follow it according to the man Torah says is like Moses who we must listen to (Yeshua - and NO it doesn't say that we must listen to people claiming to speak for him, we must ONLY listen to HIM), so investigating the shape and nature of the Earth and trying to make it a scriptural thing really brings us to the edge of gnosticism, as does the whole claim of "the mysteries" (the mystery religion being pagan NOT scriptural!), thus anything requiring special knowledge, higher intelligence or discovery of mysteries is totally not scriptural, and on that note I hope that this topic is brought around full circle to the OP and topic title on supposed mysteries.
Torah is clear, obvious, direct, and not a mystery ("nor is it beyond you"), and so is the teaching by Yeshua on how to correctly apply it (summed up nicely in Matt 23:23 imo).
