I don't believe in "scientific materialism", heliocentric physics, or atomic theory. I start from the Roman calendar that now goes to the General Roman Calendar of the Church. The solar calendar followed the lunar ones, and either way they had measures in kalends, nones, and ides, which are the new moons, quarter moons, and full moons. The astrologers warned Julius Caesar to beware the ides of March, the full Moon, but he didn't listen.
The full Moon is 180" in opposition to the Sun and goes from East to West around the Earth in about 25 hours, the Sun in 24. The basics in astronomy build up from there, and "gravity" is not a lateral force and the Moon goes laterally around the Earth, so that's the end of Newton and Einstein for me. I accept the Book of Genesis, of course, and that nature is related to creation and creation is related to nature. The Roman god Janus is significant to me for the expression given there about so many sides, and on and on they go to infinity, although sides are not infinite. They are at the most just more and more, and infinity's not more but different from that.