# ''Have scientists been wrong for 400 years?'' This junkmail will tell you. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 18, 2007, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-scientists-been-wrong-for-400-years-this-junkmail-will-tell-you/423134 "2007-10-18T03:11:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-scientists-been-wrong-for-400-years-this-junkmail-will-tell-you/423134/21 "2007-10-18T14:10:49Z")
[Spaceballs] “SUCK! SUCK! SUCK!!” [/Spaceballs] ---
**Author:** ![Figaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ea666f/32.png) [@Figaro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Figaro)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-scientists-been-wrong-for-400-years-this-junkmail-will-tell-you/423134/22 "2007-10-18T14:20:34Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Must be nice being a soprano. [/QUOTE] Let’s not jump to conclusions. There’s an outside chance \*\*Mindfield \*\* could be a tenor 😛 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-scientists-been-wrong-for-400-years-this-junkmail-will-tell-you/423134/23 "2007-10-18T14:27:15Z")
[QUOTE=Figaro] Let’s not jump to conclusions. There’s an outside chance \*\*Mindfield \*\* could be a tenor 😛 [/QUOTE] Yes, I’d considered that possibility. He might also be a surgeon. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-scientists-been-wrong-for-400-years-this-junkmail-will-tell-you/423134/24 "2007-10-18T14:42:01Z")
Hey, as long as you adopt the correct basis for analysis, it all makes perfect sense: > [@](#): > > This site is devoted to the historical relationship between the Bible and astronomy. It assumes that whenever the two are at variance, it is always astronomy—that is, our “reading” of the “Book of Nature,” not our reading of the Holy Bible—that is wrong. History bears consistent witness to the truth of that stance. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-scientists-been-wrong-for-400-years-this-junkmail-will-tell-you/423134/25 "2007-10-18T15:12:38Z")
Does anyone else think it’s really odd that nutter groups who are entirely against science always have web sites? ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-scientists-been-wrong-for-400-years-this-junkmail-will-tell-you/423134/26 "2007-10-18T15:29:34Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Does anyone else think it’s really odd that nutter groups who are entirely against science always have web sites? [/QUOTE] Yeah, they’re like the bad guys in an Ayn Rand novel - railing against science and rational thought, hating those who understand it, but not above using its fruits for their own ends. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-scientists-been-wrong-for-400-years-this-junkmail-will-tell-you/423134/27 "2007-10-18T15:33:36Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] Yeah, they’re like the bad guys in an Ayn Rand novel - railing against science and rational thought, hating those who understand it, but not above using its fruits for their own ends. [/QUOTE] “Talk about being ungrateful.” -Sagan(?) ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-scientists-been-wrong-for-400-years-this-junkmail-will-tell-you/423134/28 "2007-10-18T15:44:09Z")
Anything is possible if you can imagine it. That’s the wonder of being a scientist. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-scientists-been-wrong-for-400-years-this-junkmail-will-tell-you/423134/29 "2007-10-18T15:44:52Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Yes, I’d considered that possibility. He might also be a surgeon. [/QUOTE] Then again, he could be a hairdresser…or two. He could be two hairdressers. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-scientists-been-wrong-for-400-years-this-junkmail-will-tell-you/423134/30 "2007-10-18T15:52:21Z")
[QUOTE=Dijon Warlock] Then again, he could be a hairdresser…or two. He could be two hairdressers. [/QUOTE] Wow, I just got a mental image of a really gay binary star system. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-scientists-been-wrong-for-400-years-this-junkmail-will-tell-you/423134/31 "2007-10-18T15:53:16Z")
What gets me, is I’m fairly familiar with the bible and I don’t remember anywhere it speaking of the earth necessarily being the center of the solar system/universe? Not only are they way off on the science, but they’re not even getting the bible down right. Or web design, either. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-scientists-been-wrong-for-400-years-this-junkmail-will-tell-you/423134/32 "2007-10-18T15:57:21Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Wow, I just got a mental image of a really gay binary star system. [/QUOTE] Look at that, those stars aren’t so much revolving around each other as they are…sashaying! ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-scientists-been-wrong-for-400-years-this-junkmail-will-tell-you/423134/33 "2007-10-18T16:06:44Z")
[QUOTE=Ale] That site is best experienced with a blood alcohol level of .25 or higher. [/QUOTE] Someday I’m going to create a website with that disclaimer. [QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] Hey, as long as you adopt the correct basis for analysis, it all makes perfect sense: > [@](#): > > This site is devoted to the historical relationship between the Bible and astronomy. It assumes that whenever the two are at variance, it is always astronomy—that is, our “reading” of the “Book of Nature,” not our reading of the Holy Bible—that is wrong. History bears consistent witness to the truth of that stance. [/QUOTE] Hey, you have to admit, the statement _does_ have a certain “truthy” feel to it. [QUOTE=Autolycus] Anything is possible if you can imagine it. That’s the wonder of being a scientist. [/QUOTE] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-scientists-been-wrong-for-400-years-this-junkmail-will-tell-you/423134/34 "2007-10-18T16:14:38Z")
[QUOTE=cmyk] What gets me, is I’m fairly familiar with the bible and I don’t remember anywhere it speaking of the earth necessarily being the center of the solar system/universe? Not only are they way off on the science, but they’re not even getting the bible down right. Or web design, either. [/QUOTE] Oh they get all in a twist over Joshua telling the Sun to stand still. How could he do that if it’s the _Earth_ that moving? Not so smart now are you big guy. 🙂 Obviously there was a short in the ether. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-scientists-been-wrong-for-400-years-this-junkmail-will-tell-you/423134/35 "2007-10-18T16:38:08Z")
[QUOTE=Grey] Oh they get all in a twist over Joshua telling the Sun to stand still. How could he do that if it’s the _Earth_ that moving? Not so smart now are you big guy. 🙂 Obviously there was a short in the ether. [/QUOTE] Or perhaps the Divine Interface parsed the user request into the proper command, causing Earth to stop rotating for a time (with the side effect of causing the planet to tip over - that momentum had to go somewhere). ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-scientists-been-wrong-for-400-years-this-junkmail-will-tell-you/423134/36 "2007-10-18T16:42:24Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Wow, I just got a mental image of a really gay binary star system. [/QUOTE] That’s the dorkiest thing I’ve heard all day. I love it! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-scientists-been-wrong-for-400-years-this-junkmail-will-tell-you/423134/37 "2007-10-18T17:03:37Z")
[QUOTE=Scuba\_Ben] Or perhaps the Divine Interface parsed the user request into the proper command, causing Earth to stop rotating for a time (with the side effect of causing the planet to tip over - that momentum had to go somewhere). [/QUOTE] Obviously that would mean a core dump. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-scientists-been-wrong-for-400-years-this-junkmail-will-tell-you/423134/38 "2007-10-18T17:10:46Z")
[QUOTE=Grey] Obviously that would mean a core dump. [/QUOTE] That was a really odd thing to read just after reading **D\_Odds** ’s thread about the GM diet. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-scientists-been-wrong-for-400-years-this-junkmail-will-tell-you/423134/39 "2007-10-18T17:13:00Z")
I took a core dump, once. Much to my surprise, people ended up moving into it. They even named it New Jersey. Crazy humans. For the record though, I am not a soprano, a tenor, a surgeon or a hair dresser. Or even two hair dressers. I am a bacon, lettuce, tomato and bacon sandwich. With bacon salt. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-scientists-been-wrong-for-400-years-this-junkmail-will-tell-you/423134/40 "2007-10-18T17:15:47Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] For the record though, I am not a soprano, a tenor, a surgeon or a hair dresser. Or even two hair dressers. I am a bacon, lettuce, tomato and bacon sandwich. With bacon salt. [/QUOTE] In that case I will revolve around you any time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-scientists-been-wrong-for-400-years-this-junkmail-will-tell-you/423134.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-scientists-been-wrong-for-400-years-this-junkmail-will-tell-you/423134.md?page=3)