Sentences with phrase «earth was at the center»

A lot of sensible people opted to stay alive and proclaim that the Earth was at the center of the solar system.

With the esteemed position that the earth was at the center of the universe proven false, the church lost both prestige and credibility to emerging science.

Using a broad sweep of biblical history from Genesis to Revelation, Dr. Streett shows that the concept of the Kingdom of God on earth was at the center of the hopes and dreams of Israel, and when John the Baptist and Jesus carried out their ministries, they were announcing the arrival and inauguration of this Kingdom in the person and work of Jesus Christ.

If the binary chants are expected to run as literal computer programs, then the cult is in trouble, just as it would be if it believed Earth is at the center of the solar system or that evolution does not exist.

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«We have taken our telescope, and we have counted up how many planets are similar to the Earth in this part of the sky,» Susan Thompson, a Kepler research scientist at the SETI Institute, said during a press conference at NASA Ames Research Center on Monday.

Tal Inbar, the head of the space research center at the Fisher Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies, observed on Twitter that the reentry vehicle, or the tip of the missile that must return down to earth, was «HUGE.»

(Kitco News)- The story of Rare Earth Elements (REE) is at the center of a sad and dirty chapter of the metals industry as it continues to see weak prices despite strong demand.

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The sixth grade Innovator Team at Salisbury Middle School unveiled its Earth Day - centered mosaic that was installed in the school's lobby to...

Maybe if the universe were as the Bible describes it, the earth at it's center with stars and space simply a thin layer around it, then you could argue that, but reality suggests otherwise.

Regarding the shape of the earth, The Encyclopedia Americana says: «The earliest known image that men had of the earth was that it was a flat, rigid platform at the center of the universe....

There were also three major zones vertically (heavens above, earth at the center, underworld and abyss beneath), with their subdivisions.

raised it, have more to do with it than the molecules at the center of the earth, or Spenser's Faerie Queene or the reign of Julius Caesar, or the principle that two things equal to the same thing are equal to each other.

Galileo was found «vehemently suspect of heresy», namely of having held the opinions that the Sun lies motionless at the center of the universe, that the Earth is not at its center and moves, and that one may hold and defend an opinion as probable after it has been declared contrary to Holy Scripture.

History is full of theories that we think are ridiculous today (like: the earth is the center of the universe etc.) that at one time millions of people believed and even fought for, and they were dead wrong.

Back in the early days people theorized the earth was flat, and, once they conceded that it was truly round, were convinced it was at the center and the sun was in orbit.

However I do remember Galileo getting in some heat with the Church over his proposal that the earth was not at the center of the Universe.

To calculate the local gravitational constant according to Whitehead's theory, Will assumes that all the mass of our galaxy (1011 solar masses) is concentrated at a point 20,000 light - years from the earth — the distance of the earth from the center of the galaxy.

Look at the Catholic Church vis - a-vis the Geocentric theory — it took them 400 years to officially confirm that the earth was not the center of the universe.

The immense mass of the earth attracts the relatively minute mass of our bodies, and so we stay on the surface of the planet even though it is whirling us around its center at about 1,600 kilo - meters per hour.

No doubt it is true, scientifically speaking, that no distinct center of superhuman consciousness has yet appeared on earth (at least in the living world) for which it may be claimed or predicted that one day it will exercise a centralizing function, in relation to associated human thought, similar to the role of the individual «I» in relation to the cells of the brain.

With Christ at the center, life is an endless striving for an ideal of freedom and beauty, both together, a striving sustained by the hope for the freedom and beauty of the new heavens and earth.

At one time, the earth was even flat according to your «bible» and poor Galileo was imprisoned for stating the earth wasn't the center of the universe because your bible said otherwise.

Also for those not aware of it, it is a proven fact that the earth is not flat and not at the center of our universe.

The more we ponder these matters the more must we realize that, scientifically speaking, the real difficulty presented by Man is not the problem of whether he is a center of constant progress: it is far more the question of how long this progress can continue, at the speed at which it is going, without Life blowing up upon itself or causing the earth on which it was horn to explode.

It is old white men losing their control of society as a whole and they are just grasping at memories of the good old days... blacks were owned, women had no rights, the world was flat, the earth was the center of the universe...

About a hundred years after Christ, Ptolemy postulated that the earth was a sphere, though immovable, at the center of the universe, round which the heavenly bodies moved.

Lab reports indicate that accelerants were used to start and spread the fire, which destroyed an earth mover and damaged three other vehicles at the future site of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, ATF spokesman Eric Kehn said.

It is because the Cosmic Tree symbolizes the mystery of a world in perpetual regeneration that it can symbolize, at the same time or successively, the pillar of the world and the cradle of the human race, the cosmic renovatio and the lunar rhythms, the Center of the World and the path by which one can pass from Earth to Heaven, etc..

For example, we know with certainty that the Earth is roughly spherical and revolves around the Sun - not flat and at the center of the solar system, as was once erroneously believed by people in a greater state of ignorance than ours at present.

The fact remains that at the present time a fundamental inner impulse, newly born in our hearts, is tending to find a dual, and divergent, expression in two apparently incompatible spiritual forms; on the one hand, the spirit (let us call it «Christian») of sacrifice and of union centered in the expectation of an Apotheosis in the future; and on the other hand the Promethean or Faustian spirit of self - worship based on the material organization of the earth.

The church is welcome not to support those scientific facts — much the way Galileo was excommunicated for daring to reorder the planets with Earth not at the center.]

In an ever moving and changing world, I have learned that I can get dizzy with it all, so I hunker down, kneel to the ground, I go towards the steady earth, at her center of gravity, is where I find my own.

Prenatal Yoga and Meditation is one of the signature classes at Heaven Meets Earth, a yoga studio and center for conscious living in Evanston.

Other Earth Day activities at Spring Brook Nature Center include sidewalk chalk drawing sessions for children and entertainment by folk singer Mark Dvorak from 12:30 until 2 p.m. Visitors are invited to bring picnic lunches and eat on the grounds of the center, which is operated by the Village of Itasca in cooperation with the Itasca School District and Itasca Park DisCenter include sidewalk chalk drawing sessions for children and entertainment by folk singer Mark Dvorak from 12:30 until 2 p.m. Visitors are invited to bring picnic lunches and eat on the grounds of the center, which is operated by the Village of Itasca in cooperation with the Itasca School District and Itasca Park Discenter, which is operated by the Village of Itasca in cooperation with the Itasca School District and Itasca Park District.

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On Wednesday evening, an exhibition opened at Loisaida Center, titled «CHARAS is Alive on Spaceship Earth.»

He is the author of more than 200 peer - reviewed and edited publications and serves as director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University.

«How We Know the Earth Is Warming» by Peter Guttorp, professor at the Norwegian Computing Center and professor emeritus in the department of statistics at the University of Washington

Captured by Kepler's digital sensors, transformed into bytes of data, and downloaded to computers at NASA's Ames Research Center near San Francisco, the processed starlight slowly revealed a remarkable story: A planet not much bigger than Earth was whipping around its native star at a blistering pace, completing an orbit — its version of a «year» — in just over 20 hours.

Perhaps the oddest theory about our planet's inner workings comes from an independent geophysicist, J. Marvin Herndon, who imagines that instead of a stable ball of iron at Earth's center, there could be a natural nuclear reactor chugging away.

Danchi, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, is running simulations for the Fourier - Kelvin Stellar Interferometer, a proposed space mission that could lay the groundwork for the search for Earth - like worlds in the next decade.

Fearing religious persecution, Copernicus waited until just before his death in 1543 to publish his heretical theory that Earth circles the sun — and so is not at the center of the universe.

The recoil from this tiny plume creates tremendous pressures in the remaining foil — up to 300 gigapascals, which is three million times the atmospheric pressure around us and comparable to the 350 - gigapascal pressure at the center of the Earth, Nagler said.

«The encounter with Earth is fundamental to our rendezvous with Bennu,» said Rich Burns, OSIRIS - REx project manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

«Neutrinos are very interesting — they're the second most abundant particle in the universe after photons yet we still have much to learn about them,» commented Evan Grohs, who earned his Ph.D. through UCSD for the work, while working on the project in the Center for Space and Earth Sciences at Los Alamos.

«Sometimes they'll happen and you'll have to be somewhere else on Earth to see them,» said Noah Petro, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter deputy project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. «Most [residents] of the continental United States will be able to see the whole thing.»

«It's important work,» says Christopher McKay, a planetary scientist at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. «This is a move toward more realism in terms of what the conditions were on early Earth.»

Researchers from the Astrobiology Research Center at Pennsylvania State University presented evidence that there was an abundance of oxygen on Earth as long as 2.3 billion years ago.

The change in the burst's brightness appears to be exactly the same at radio and optical frequencies; this can happen, say Garnavich and his collaborators Avi Loeb and Kris Stanek from the Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, only if part of the expanding ring passed behind a star located exactly between Earth and the ring itself.

«Imagine,» says Jill Tarter, director of the Center for SETI Research at the SETI Institute and one of the stalwarts in the field, «that you didn't know whether there were any fish in Earth's oceans.