The Church teaches we can know God through his Creation, and I have yet to see a working model for Geocentrism. So tentatively, I accept Heliocentrism pending further research.
Interesting forlorn, you haven't figured out the best working model for geocentrism available to us all, our very own eyes.
‘The hearing ear, and seeing eye; the lord hath made them both.’ (Prov. 20:12) All, except the poor blind are blessed with eyesight. All human beings saw and continue to see the sun, moon, planets and stars revolve around the Earth. Without doubt, the geocentric world that can be clearly seen has to top St Paul’s list of visible things that point to a Creator. It did so for thousands of years until men deliberately set out to blind us all, to eliminate the sensible vision of the cosmos that led many souls to know God exists. So successful was their heliocentric heresy in separating faith and reason that mankind soon lost sight of God in His creation, it being replaced by naturalism, the philosophical belief that everything arises from natural properties and causes, all supernatural or spiritual causes are excluded or discounted. The heliocentric universe in only in the mind, on a piece of paper or in a book. Then again if it is scientific proof for geocentrism you are looking for, forget it, proofs do not exist in cosmology.
Albert Einstein, in his effort to save heliocentrism from two experiments, the 1870 Airy test and the 1887 michelson & Morley test, invented his special theory of relativity. He said both the heliocentric model and the geocentric model are identical in that there is no physical difference between both. A great man called Walter van der Kamp tested Einstein's theory to see if it is true. Both had to have the 3 observations to be seen by astronomers, (1) from both had to haver the sun pass in front of the Zodiac annually. (2) stellar parallax had to be seen, and (3) all the stars had to make small circlets annually.
The only model, geocentric or heliocentric, that could physically show all three conditions above was the ammended tychonian model, where all the stars are centered on the sun as they all orbit the earth. In other words the sun and stars are one, and when orbiting around the Earth together annually is the only model that can show the stars producing parallax and the smaller circlets necessary for stellar aberration.
What is the Axis of Evil by the way?
It is a long story forlorn so I will try to shorten it for you and readers.
‘In 1978 Penzias and Wilson received the Nobel Prize in physics for their discovery of the CMR in 1965. Study of the CMB continued with the United States government’s agency the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). In June, 2001 a satellite WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard a Delta rocket. Then there was the European Space Agency’s PLANCK mission launched in 2009 to map the CMB in greater detail. By 2013 the cosmologists reckoned the temperature variations of the cosmos were now known and from these had conjured up a history of the universe since the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago. Throughout the world, in scientific institutions and universities, massive crowds turned out to hear of and see the ‘proofs’ the CMB had established for their Big Bang theory. One of these, they claim, was the first evolution of the stars from particles 200,000,000 years old. Hundreds of websites were created to show the world what their science had discovered. But the truth will out if you seek it that is:
‘Irrespective of how it originated, the most important fact about the CMR is that it represents unequivocal evidence of an absolute reference frame in the universe… I suggest [this] evidence which has received worldwide acclaim as confirmation of the Big Bang is really its death knell for, ironically, it is now clear that the existence of the CMR essentially falsifies the fundamental postulates of the theory of relativity [that there is no reference frame in the universe]… In simple terms, the theory of relativity has been falsified because a major prediction of the theory is now known to be contradicted by [another] unambiguous experimental result.’ (R. Gentry: Creation’s Tiny Mystery, Earth Science Associates, 2004, pp.284-5)
Good, someone did notice George Smoot's claim to have witnessed the variation in the CMB that showed the Earth’s movement in its supposed orbit. But now let us address Robert Gentry’s 2004 quote above: ‘Irrespective of how it originated, the most important fact about the CMR is that it represents unequivocal evidence of an absolute reference frame in the universe.’ One of these reference frames has become known as the ‘Axis of Evil,’
‘The light is the CMB, and it provides some of the best knowledge we have about the structure, content, and history of the Universe. But it also contains a few mysteries: on very large scales, the cosmos seems to have a certain lopsidedness. That slight asymmetry is reflected in temperature fluctuations much larger than any galaxy, aligned on the sky in a pattern facetiously dubbed “the axis of evil.” The lopsidedness is real, but cosmologists are divided over whether it reveals anything meaningful about the fundamental laws of physics.’ --- Arstecnica website.
During this time of discovery two scholars, Robert Sungenis and Richard Delano also took an interest in the CMB’s findings. To them, interpretation of the data shows the Earth sits at the centre of the universe.
‘All in all, there are three basic [CMB] alignments of the Earth with the universe:
(1) The cosmic microwave radiation’s dipole is aligned with the Earth’s equator.
(2) The cosmic microwave radiation’s quadrupole and octupole are aligned with the Earth‐Sun ecliptic.
(3) The distant quasars and radio galaxies are aligned with the Earth’s equator and the North Celestial Pole. Essentially, these three alignments provide the X, Y and Z coordinates to place Earth in the very center of the known universe.’ (Robert Sungenis: website, Debunking David Palm, 2014.)
It is a long story forlorn so I will try to shorten it for you and readers.
‘In 1978 Penzias and Wilson received the Nobel Prize in physics for their discovery of the CMR in 1965. Study of the CMB continued with the United States government’s agency the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). In June, 2001 a satellite WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard a Delta rocket. Then there was the European Space Agency’s PLANCK mission launched in 2009 to map the CMB in greater detail. By 2013 the cosmologists reckoned the temperature variations of the cosmos were now known and from these had conjured up a history of the universe since the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago. Throughout the world, in scientific institutions and universities, massive crowds turned out to hear of and see the ‘proofs’ the CMB had established for their Big Bang theory. One of these, they claim, was the first evolution of the stars from particles 200,000,000 years old. Hundreds of websites were created to show the world what their science had discovered. But the truth will out if you seek it that is:
‘Irrespective of how it originated, the most important fact about the CMR is that it represents unequivocal evidence of an absolute reference frame in the universe… I suggest [this] evidence which has received worldwide acclaim as confirmation of the Big Bang is really its death knell for, ironically, it is now clear that the existence of the CMR essentially falsifies the fundamental postulates of the theory of relativity [that there is no reference frame in the universe]… In simple terms, the theory of relativity has been falsified because a major prediction of the theory is now known to be contradicted by [another] unambiguous experimental result.’ (R. Gentry: Creation’s Tiny Mystery, Earth Science Associates, 2004, pp.284-5)
Good, someone did notice George Smoot's claim to have witnessed the variation in the CMB that showed the Earth’s movement in its supposed orbit. But now let us address Robert Gentry’s 2004 quote above: ‘Irrespective of how it originated, the most important fact about the CMR is that it represents unequivocal evidence of an absolute reference frame in the universe.’ One of these reference frames has become known as the ‘Axis of Evil,’
‘The light is the CMB, and it provides some of the best knowledge we have about the structure, content, and history of the Universe. But it also contains a few mysteries: on very large scales, the cosmos seems to have a certain lopsidedness. That slight asymmetry is reflected in temperature fluctuations much larger than any galaxy, aligned on the sky in a pattern facetiously dubbed “the axis of evil.” The lopsidedness is real, but cosmologists are divided over whether it reveals anything meaningful about the fundamental laws of physics.’ --- Arstecnica website.
During this time of discovery two scholars, Robert Sungenis and Richard Delano also took an interest in the CMB’s findings. To them, interpretation of the data shows the Earth sits at the centre of the universe.
‘All in all, there are three basic [CMB] alignments of the Earth with the universe:
(1) The cosmic microwave radiation’s dipole is aligned with the Earth’s equator.
(2) The cosmic microwave radiation’s quadrupole and octupole are aligned with the Earth‐Sun ecliptic.
(3) The distant quasars and radio galaxies are aligned with the Earth’s equator and the North Celestial Pole. Essentially, these three alignments provide the X, Y and Z coordinates to place Earth in the very center of the known universe.’ (Robert Sungenis: website, Debunking David Palm, 2014.)
Very interesting theory, however it does not suggest that the Sun orbits the Earth. Here's a quote of the part I bolded:
(2) The cosmic microwave radiation’s quadrupole and octupole are aligned with the Earth‐Sun ecliptic.
This means they believe such an elliptic does exist, that the Earh does indeed orbit the Sun. So according to the alignments, the universe seems to be centered around the Earth even as the Earth rotates around the Sun.
Very interesting theory, however it does not suggest that the Sun orbits the Earth. Here's a quote of the part I bolded:
This means they believe such an elliptic does exist, that the Earh does indeed orbit the Sun. So according to the alignments, the universe seems to be centered around the Earth even as the Earth rotates around the Sun.
First forlorn it is not a theory, it is empirical science. The CMB exists in the form that they found it. It shows empirically the Earth is at the center of the universe.
As I understand it, the exercise by Sungenis and Delano is to show the Earth is at the centre of the universe. Yes, it could be said the 'solar system,' be it geocentric or heliocentric, does exist at the center of the CMB. But given the ammended Tychonian model is the only one that can account for a same size annual physical circling of all the stars of the universe that contains the CMB, and the earth is at the center of the Tychonian system, then the evidence is that it is the Earth that is at the center.
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Very interesting theory, however it does not suggest that the Sun orbits the Earth. Here's a quote of the part I bolded:
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(2) The cosmic microwave radiation’s quadrupole and octupole are aligned with the Earth‐Sun ecliptic.
This means they believe such an elliptic [ecliptic] does exist, that the Earh [Earth] does indeed orbit the Sun. So according to the alignments, the universe seems to be centered around the Earth even as the Earth rotates around the Sun.
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The ecliptic (not "elliptic") is defined as the plane in outer space through which the sun passes in its daily cycle about the earth, a plane which also passes through the center of Earth. From the viewpoint of Earth, the ecliptic makes a curving line across the sky since the Sun's path is a curved path. The existence of the ecliptic doesn't preclude the Sun orbiting the Earth. Nor does the ecliptic's existence demand that the Earth does not orbit around the Sun.
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The ecliptic exists due to the fact that the path the sun makes across the sky as viewed from Earth is a predictable path that projects itself onto the celestial sphere where we see the stars every night. Nor does the ecliptic always remain in the same place. As the seasons change so too the ecliptic makes small movements, but these have to be measured with sensitive astronomical instruments.
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The ecliptic is not obvious to casual observers because of the fact that during the day, when we can see the sun, we cannot see the stars in the sky since the sun is so bright. It takes sophisticated filters to find out where the stars are in the daytime sky (nearby or behind the Sun), such devices that the ancients did not have for their use as far as we know. Therefore, one must keep track of where the sun WAS each day, perhaps using some device that traces the direction to the sun, and then wait until sunset to see where the stars are in the sky while continuing to move the device to follow where the sun must be even though it is no longer visible since it's night time, and the sun is below the horizon. Then, keeping this information on record, later in the year when that part of the sky that was obscured by the daytime Sun is then visible at night, it can be determined in retrospect, where the Sun was when the measurements were taken. Note: you really have to be a serious GEEK to be diligent about this process.
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This process, by the way, is a most embarrassing one for flat-earthers, who insist that the sun does not go down below the horizon but continues somehow to hover out of sight and around the horizon past the north pole (but never past the south pole in the southern hemisphere!) and then inexplicably becomes visible in the east not because it is rising from BELOW the horizon, but because it is getting closer (even while it does not get larger to our sight) and therefore its light is able to reach us (but they're unable to explain why the Sun's light is suddenly able to reach us -- they say things like "light can't travel forever").
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The process alluded to, using a sun tracking device (which all excellent telescopes have BTW) is able to show us where to find the sun at any time during the night, and it is found not along the northern hemisphere but under our feet at some precise angle which is measurable and predictable. This is how lunar eclipses are foreseeable in the future, because the precise location of the sun is not a mystery but rather it is something that can be determined quite accurately even years in advance for each day of the year.