GALILEO
WAS WRONG A CD
review by Gerardus D. Bouw, Ph.D. This is a review of the CD, Galileo was
Wrong: The Scientific, Scriptural, Ecclesiastical and Patristic Evidence for
Geocentrism, Volume 1, “Scientific Evidence,” (Catholic Apologetics
International Publishing, Box 278, State Line, PA 17263), by Robert A.
Sungenis, Ph.D. and Robert J. Bennett, Ph.D.
The book, which is a PDF file, runs 1147 pages including a bibliography,
9 appendices, and almost 1400 footnotes.
The book contains 12 chapters entitled 1.
The Real Galileo and the Truth about Copernicanism 2.
Science and its problems 3.
Evidence of Geocentrism in the Cosmos 4.
Answering Common Objections 5.
Albert Einstein and the Interferometers: The
Frightening Possibility of a Motionless Earth 6.
What Did Michelson-Morley Actually Demonstrate? 7.
What is Space? 8.
The Physical Cause of Gravity 9.
How Old and How Big is the Universe? 10. Mathematical
Models of a Geocentric Universe 11. Hidegardian
Geocentrism: Aristotelian Cosmology Meets Modern Science 12. Technical
and Summary Analysis of Geocentric Cosmology The book is available only on CD,
which contains the book as a PDF file.
It may be ordered from www.galileowaswrong.com for $23 plus $4 shipping
in the USA and $7 elsewhere. The CD is
PC-based only. I
admit it; so far I have only skimmed the book, reading selective portions of
it, but I have read enough to know that these two gentlemen have done a
stupendous work. I can only allocate
two pages for this review, so there is no way I can do it justice. Its honesty, depth, perspectives, and
insights have convinced me that I have to print out a hard copy. Sungeness even proposes a new theory for
gravity on page 513: “[T]he less dense ether inside the atom will attempt to
draw in the denser ether outside the atom….
The vacuum force will continue until equilibrium is reached, but, in
fact, equilibrium is never reached…”[1] The
waters above the firmament are treated in chapter 11 from the perspective of
the 11th century mystic, Hildegard von Bingen’s six-layer
cosmos. Protestants and sola
scriptura types may blanche at this kind of treatment, but it is based on
bringing an Aristotelian perspective to bear on the creation psalm, Psalm
104:1-6. The treatment is nowhere near
as far-fetched as some of the canopy theories.
The authors apparently prefer Aristotelian philosophy over the modern
Platonic philosophy. I would, too, if
those were the only two choices. This
is the place where plasma physics, water, the creation week, and rotation of
the firmament are covered, and it is the chapter most heavily laced with scripture
verses. The last
chapter, written by Dr. Bennett, analyzes the various proofs and disproofs of
geocentricity. These are described in
detail, with all the equations necessary for scientists to understand them, and
are subsequently summarized in tables.
To do this, the authors have divided them into three sections: 1.
Does the Earth Rotate? 2.
Does the Earth Revolve Around the Sun? 3.
Does the Solar System Move Through Space? Finally, the appendices are
these: 1.
Anomalies concerning the speed of light 2.
The stars and the speed of light in Genesis 1. 3.
The origin of the equation E = mc 2 4.
Do the 1919 eclipse photographs prove General
Relativity? 5.
Does Mercury’s residual perihelion prove General
Relativity? 6.
Does the Hafele-Keating experiment prove General
Relativity? 7.
Do global positioning satellites prove General
Relativity? 8.
The De Broglie wavelength 9.
The personal lives of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo,
Newton, Einstein. The
animations on the CD are excellent.
They demonstrate the yearly and daily motions of the modified Tychonic
model, the seasons, retrograde motion, and parallax in a comparative way. The illustrations are in the form of
executable files, which makes it hard to browse them. The authors have done an admirable job all around. For the scientific and historic aspects of
geocentricity, this book has no equal.
Very highly recommended. [1] An aside to the handful of
readers who will understand this: If one views the firmament’s temperature (1032K)
as black-body radiation, the B-B curve peaks at a wavelength equal to the size
of a proton, meaning it is probably the fundamental nuclear particle. |