Galileo, Geocentrism, and Joshua’s Long Day Questions and Answers

Who were Galileo’s real opponents? What should Christians learn from the Roman Catholic church’s reaction?

• The Galileo ‘twist’
• Galileo — What were his real scientific and biblical conflicts with the Church? (Christian Answers Network)
• What is the lesson that Christians should learn from Galileo? (Christian Answers Network)
• The Galileo affair: history or heroic hagiography (semi-technical)
• The Galileo excuse (from a response to Bill Dembski)
• Luther and Science (the attitude of Luther and his followers to Copernicus — off site)
• Galileo Quadricentennial

Where did Geocentrism really come from? Does Scripture unambiguously teach that the earth is the physical centre of the solar system?

• Is the Earth at the Center of the Universe?
• Sunspots, Galileo and heliocentrism
• Moving with the Planets
• Geocentrism and Creation (Semi-technical, critique of Gerardus Bouw’s book Geocentricity)
• Geocentric gobbledegook (Semi-technical, critique of Marshall Hall’s book The Earth is Not Moving)

Is the long day Joshua 10 proof of a biblical error? How did it happen? Has NASA really proved it?

• Joshua’s long day — did it really happen? (Russell Grigg: biblical and scientific evidence)
• Have computers discovered the Biblical ‘long days’? (Dr Don DeYoung, Astronomy and the Bible)
• Have NASA’s computers really proven a long day? (Dr Jonathan Sarfati)
• Has NASA Discovered a ‘Missing Day’? (Bert Thompson)

For the related topic of alleged ‘flat earth’ teaching in the Bible, see Does the Bible really teach a flat earth?