A substantial amount of the rebuttal video involves the narrator saying CHL doesn't know about a modern geocentric model (apparently called neo-Tychonic).
But that's simply wrong. The CHL video does in fact talk about the neo-Tychonic model starting at about the 11:45 mark (where Apollo had the video start). Before 11:45, the CHL video is going over other geocentric models and the reasons/observations they were abandoned. In discussing each of these other geocentric models, CHL says they didn't work for some reason X. And the rebuttal claims CHL doesn't know about the neo-Tychonic model that allegedly handles X.
As I stated earlier the rebuttal video is only in response to the first video posted by CHL (2012), which I linked in reply # 32 . The video posted by Apollo is number 10 in CHL's series (posted in 2014) to which Sungenis never made a response that I know of. The paper, by Sungenis, that I attached to two of my posts deals with CHL 1-7 and was published in 2013. As far as I am aware Sungenis never bothered to write further in response to CHL (which, after listening to CHL's blasphemy, I don't blame Sungenis a bit!)
Q What is your take on this?
My take is that it seems you are trying to apply a rebuttal to CHL video 1 against a different video, CHL 10. See reply #32 (BTW I am accusing you of a mistake, not bad will for doing so)
Conversely, heliocentrism has the problem of
explaining why the Earth’s rotation does not decay but is always 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.7 seconds.
Is this actually claiming in mainstream science the rotation of the earth doesn't vary?
No, it is not denying variation, it is asking why, in a heliocentric model, Earth's rotational speed does not continually decrease. In other words what started and what keeps the Earth spinning? 1000 years ago was a day longer? Will a day be shorter 1000 from hence?
Are we to find an explanation like this more plausible?
https://www.universetoday.com/14491/why-does-the-earth-rotate/"Over the course of a few hundred million years, all of the material in the Solar System gathered together into planets, asteroids, moons and comets. Then the powerful radiation and solar winds from the young Sun cleared out everything that was left over.
Without any unbalanced forces acting on them, the inertia of the Sun and the planets have kept them spinning for billions of years.
And they’ll continue to do so until they collide with some object, billions or even trillions of years in the future."
But if the earth is not rotating or moving, these effects would need to be variations in the movement of the universe around the earth.
Why is that a problem? Incredible masses and distances are part of either model. "Wobble" would seem to be a reasonable explanation.
What I referenced above, "Over the course of a few hundred million years...", is why I bother to study things like geocentrism. Just like evolution, helio-centrism seeks to detach us from God, His creation, and His special love for man.
Sagan exemplifies the view Helio-centrism would have us take:
"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."