When I discuss geocentrism people get angry without real arguments; will the Church ever boldly embrace it?
A viewer says that when he discusses geocentrism people get angry and have no real arguments, and asks whether, given the current pushback, Robert can imagine the Church once again boldly embracing the truth of geocentrism.
Answer
In the twenty years I have dealt with this, fewer and fewer people who actually know the physics say we do not know what we are talking about; we have crossed that line, because the scientific data supports us and many PhDs in physics and astrophysics now admit it and are questioning their own theories about the Big Bang and the CMB. But you will still get doubters, and they usually get angry because it upsets their whole world. Put yourself in their shoes: you have believed since childhood that the earth goes around the sun and rotates, and now you are told you were lied to, and that the Church held geocentrism for two thousand years, Scripture teaches it, the fathers and medievals taught it, and the magisterium condemned Galileo over it. This is the heart of the matter; the Copernican thesis is the heart of modern civilization, and if it falls, evolution and much else fall with it. So expect resistance. As Schopenhauer said, every new truth is first ridiculed, then violently opposed, then accepted as if it had always been believed. When people who really know finally catch on, they say, I cannot believe I never saw this my whole life.