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>> "Heck, the earth use to be the center of the universe according to religion." Em, didn't everyone believe this? Sure religion was slow to adapt when proof t

>> "Heck, the earth use to be the center of the universe according to religion." Em, didn't everyone believe this? Sure religion was slow to adapt when proof the Earth wasn't the centre was brought forward but at the time that was a pretty big claim. >> "Personally religion is a non-scientific thing that really has no place in science at all. As a result, it's really not relevant on hacker news either , IMO." Of course that's your opinion but this is Hacker News, not science news. If your interested in how someone runs a large company it can be relevant to look at religious leaders like the pope of dalai lama as that is essentially what they do and on a bigger scale than any company.

crimsonalucard 11y ago
>>Em, didn't everyone believe this? Sure religion was slow to adapt when proof the Earth wasn't the centre was brought forward but at the time that was a pretty big claim. Everybody believed it due to religion, even when the science described a different reality.
- Nadya 11y ago
  Everybody believed it because of science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocentric_model#Ptolemaic_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocentric_model#Ptolemaic_mod... E: The important takeaway: "It has been determined, in fact, that the Copernican, Ptolemaic and even the Tychonic models provided identical results to identical inputs. They are computationally equivalent. It wasn't until Kepler demonstrated a physical observation that could show that the physical sun is directly involved in determining an orbit that a new model was required."
  - crimsonalucard 11y ago
    Theories can change. That is the nature of science, peer review and new observations. When the science on heliocentricity was developed, religion tried to warp reality as we know it and shove Galileo under a rug. Inevitably, reality won out, but not without cost. See famous story below: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair
    - Nadya 11y ago
      You're conflating the Catholic Church to cover all religions - as well as ignoring the politics behind the Galileo events. You also seem to believe that Galileo was the creator of the heliocentric model. Please see my other reply. [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9708703 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9708703

crimsonalucard 11y ago

>>Em, didn't everyone believe this? Sure religion was slow to adapt when proof the Earth wasn't the centre was brought forward but at the time that was a pretty big claim. Everybody believed it due to religion, even when the science described a different reality.

Nadya 11y ago
Everybody believed it because of science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocentric_model#Ptolemaic_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocentric_model#Ptolemaic_mod... E: The important takeaway: "It has been determined, in fact, that the Copernican, Ptolemaic and even the Tychonic models provided identical results to identical inputs. They are computationally equivalent. It wasn't until Kepler demonstrated a physical observation that could show that the physical sun is directly involved in determining an orbit that a new model was required."
- crimsonalucard 11y ago
  Theories can change. That is the nature of science, peer review and new observations. When the science on heliocentricity was developed, religion tried to warp reality as we know it and shove Galileo under a rug. Inevitably, reality won out, but not without cost. See famous story below: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair
  - Nadya 11y ago
    You're conflating the Catholic Church to cover all religions - as well as ignoring the politics behind the Galileo events. You also seem to believe that Galileo was the creator of the heliocentric model. Please see my other reply. [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9708703 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9708703