Copernicus showed that the earth is the center of the earth and nothing more. Galileo was put on the rack for thinking similarly and then uttered "And yet it moves" after being released.

I know what red shifts are. To use that to put the earth in the center of the universe is sadly lacking in what a red shift means.

Read Stephen Hawking, and Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes or anything else by Stephen Jay Gould.


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--Pat Parelli

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