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In what ways does redshift lead to geocentrism?

I recall Dr. Sungenis briefly mentioning how his favored cause for the redshift of galaxies is related.

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Let's say you had gone fishing for swordfish in your boat. And let's say you reached a point in your ride that you saw swordfish to the north, south, east and west, and you didn't see any other fish. You could surmise that you were in the center of the swordfish. But let's say you moved the boat and now you saw a mixture of swordfish and sharks. If so, then you could no longer say that you were in the center of the swordfish. Hubble saw the same with the redshift of the light coming from all the distant galaxies. He saw it north, south, east and west, up and down, left and right. As such, he would have to conclude he as the observer had to be in the center of the dispersion. In other words, if he was not in the center, then he would have seen blue shifts (sharks) and redshifts (swordfish). Hubble didn't want the earth to be in the center. The only way he could think to alleviate the problem was to take away the center (by dispensing with Euclidean geometry), leaving only a surface, like a balloon (Reimann geometry). He would place all the galaxies, including the Milky Way, on the surface of the balloon. In order to get redshift from them all, he would make the balloon expand (the Big Bang), which would stretch the wavelength of the light, which would mean that any observer on any galaxy would see a redshift from any other galaxy. Viola! he solved the redshift problem. So he thought. He couldn't prove this ad hoc universe, but everyone liked it because it got the Earth out of the center, and out from under the thumb of God, and Scripture that said that God put the Earth in the center and that the universe rotated around it. But theorizing a "Big Bang" was easy. Making it work was almost impossible, at least without more ad hoc components added to it, e.g., inflation, dark energy, dark matter, superluminal expansion, multiverse, etc). Today, the Big Bang simply doesn't work. My prediction is that it will be abandon within the next 50 years.

— Dr. Robert Sungenis

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