If Christians can’t trust the Bible when it comes to the literal scientific details of the cosmos, how can we believe anything that the Bible says?
This is probably the most important question because it strikes at the heart of biblical inerrancy and infallibility. We obviously believe that the Bible is given to us without error, but we seldom stop to ask ourselves, “Without error with respect to what exactly?” If we allow the biblical authors to draw from their own incorrect views of the cosmos, then how can we be certain that they are truly speaking God’s thoughts on spiritual matters? In fact, conservative Christian groups such as the Association for Biblical Astronomy (www.geocentricity.com) and the The Fair Education Foundation (www.fixedearth.com) say that the Church’s capitulation to the scientific claims of Copernicus and Galileo opened up the entire Bible to scientific rebuke. In order to combat these “worldly” scientific philosophies, they have chosen to believe that the earth really is fixed at the center of the universe just as the Bible describes it, and that modern astronomy is a grand hoax! This might seem like a gr
