• Geocentrism in the Catholic church way backi/Galileo was: Re: Chimp to human evolution - Sandwalk perspective

    From Kerr-Mudd, John@admin@127.0.0.1 to talk-origins on Mon Feb 16 12:01:34 2026
    From Newsgroup: talk.origins

    On Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:56:19 -0600
    RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 2/15/2026 10:58 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Mon, 9 Feb 2026 14:03:13 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 2/9/2026 6:03 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Sat, 7 Feb 2026 12:14:27 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:

    [...]

    this really isn't about origins. Maybe you two could take this to a
    religion group? or recognise no-one is budging an inch.
    --
    Bah, and indeed, Humbug

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  • From Martin Harran@martinharran@gmail.com to talk-origins on Mon Feb 16 12:42:39 2026
    From Newsgroup: talk.origins

    On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:01:34 +0000, "Kerr-Mudd, John"
    <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:

    On Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:56:19 -0600
    RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 2/15/2026 10:58 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Mon, 9 Feb 2026 14:03:13 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 2/9/2026 6:03 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Sat, 7 Feb 2026 12:14:27 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote: >> >
    [...]

    this really isn't about origins. Maybe you two could take this to a
    religion group? or recognise no-one is budging an inch.

    Actually, the group was set up to deal with issues relating to origins
    and religion. In any case, reading any particular thread is not
    compulsory.

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  • From RonO@rokimoto557@gmail.com to talk-origins on Mon Feb 16 10:55:39 2026
    From Newsgroup: talk.origins

    On 2/16/2026 6:01 AM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
    On Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:56:19 -0600
    RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 2/15/2026 10:58 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Mon, 9 Feb 2026 14:03:13 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 2/9/2026 6:03 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Sat, 7 Feb 2026 12:14:27 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote: >>>
    [...]

    this really isn't about origins. Maybe you two could take this to a
    religion group? or recognise no-one is budging an inch.


    The sad thing is that it is relevant to what is being discussed in this thread. These are the lies that creationists like Harran, MarkE and
    Sticks have to tell themselves about Biblical interpretation and what
    the actual creation is. All of them have to deny the past failures of
    the Bible to describe nature accurately, and for creationists that
    believe that nature is the Biblical creation they can't live with the
    past failure. They have to live in denial of the failure. They lack
    the faith in their religious beliefs to give up on what the Bible
    misleads them about in terms of the creation that actually exists. They
    all just want to believe that the Bible has been misinterpreted, but
    they don't agree about the degree of misinterpretation. Sticks still
    wants to believe some of the young earth creationists Biblical beliefs.
    MarkE is likely some type of old earth creationist, but he hasn't given
    up on the Biblical order of creation. He is in the same boat as the
    reason to believe old earth day for age creationists. They can't accept
    that the order of creation is not what is depicted in the Bible. They
    are even willing to rewrite parts of the Bible so that the Sun and Moon
    do not have to be created on the 3rd day, but were only "made visible"
    on the third day when the Bible only uses the word for "made" or "make"
    to describe the creation of the sun and moon on the 3rd day. The stupid
    thing is that their god would have been the only being that would be
    able to see the sun and moon for billions of years before plants were
    created on the earth. The sun and moon would have never been invisible
    to their god.

    Harrans denial is the same, and the only reason that the denial is
    maintained is to support their other Biblical beliefs. Harran, MarkE,
    and Sticks have not given up on science supporting their Biblical
    beliefs when they should all know that science has not and will likely
    never support those Biblical beliefs. All the past failures should have
    made them understand that fact, but they still can't give up on the
    notion. Harran gets conned by Books like the one he discussed in this
    thread because he still thinks that science can support his Biblical
    beliefs when the exact opposite has always been true. The sad fact is
    that nature was understood not to be Biblical by the early church. None
    of the church fathers was a flat earth Biblical creationist. Harran put
    up Origen's non Biblical creation beliefs in this thread. That doesn't
    seem to matter because we have flat earth and geocentric Biblical
    creationists existing to this day. We still have Biblical creationists
    like Harran, MarkE and Sticks. Both MarkE and Sticks are anti evolution because of the Biblical beliefs that have never been supported by the
    creation that actually exists.

    Ron Okimoto

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  • From Kerr-Mudd, John@admin@127.0.0.1 to talk-origins on Mon Feb 23 20:52:18 2026
    From Newsgroup: talk.origins

    On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:07:00 -0600
    RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 2/23/2026 7:03 AM, Martin Harran wrote:

    [about the RC church' postion on geocentrisism in mediavel times]

    Church was wrong or right; I don't care.
    It's not really about Origins is it? - and you both keep repeating
    yourselves. Let it go.
    --
    Bah, and indeed Humbug.

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  • From RonO@rokimoto557@gmail.com to talk-origins on Tue Feb 24 09:22:19 2026
    From Newsgroup: talk.origins

    On 2/23/2026 2:52 PM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:07:00 -0600
    RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 2/23/2026 7:03 AM, Martin Harran wrote:

    [about the RC church' postion on geocentrisism in mediavel times]

    Church was wrong or right; I don't care.
    It's not really about Origins is it? - and you both keep repeating yourselves. Let it go.



    This is the same type of Biblical denial that you repeatedly address
    with the Biblical creationists that are left posting. There really
    isn't any difference. Just think about it for a minute. Harran doesn't
    want the Bible to have been wrong about anything. He wants to make
    believe that it has always been faulty interpretation, but the
    interpretations have always been faulty because the Bible is just wrong
    about a lot of things. MarkE is anti-evolution because he doesn't want
    the Bible to be wrong about nature. Stick still wants to believe some
    of the young earth nonsense because he doesn't want the Bible to be
    wrong about those things. Sticks has enough on the ball to understand
    that the earth and universe are a lot older than the Bible has been interpreted it to be, but he still wants the Bible to not be wrong about
    some of the young earth claims about the creation.

    Harran still wants the Bible to be correct about the creation, so he has
    to deny that it has always been shown to be wrong about what we could
    figure out for ourselves. None of them can accept that the human
    authors of the Bible just did not fully understand what the creation
    actually was, and just like all the Church fathers they wrote about what
    they thought that they understood, but it was obviously wrong. None of
    them can deal with the fact that there isn't a single god-did-it
    Biblical claim that has been verified by science or what passed as
    science in the past. They understand that there has been 100% failure
    for their efforts because if they had any successes they would be
    crowing about those instead of wallowing in denial like Harran and the
    others. The denial is all that they have left.

    Ron Okimoto

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  • From Martin Harran@martinharran@gmail.com to talk-origins on Tue Feb 24 15:41:37 2026
    From Newsgroup: talk.origins

    On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:22:19 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 2/23/2026 2:52 PM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:07:00 -0600
    RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 2/23/2026 7:03 AM, Martin Harran wrote:

    [about the RC church' postion on geocentrisism in mediavel times]

    Church was wrong or right; I don't care.
    It's not really about Origins is it? - and you both keep repeating
    yourselves. Let it go.



    This is the same type of Biblical denial that you repeatedly address
    with the Biblical creationists that are left posting. There really
    isn't any difference. Just think about it for a minute. Harran doesn't >want the Bible to have been wrong about anything. He wants to make
    believe that it has always been faulty interpretation, but the >interpretations have always been faulty because the Bible is just wrong >about a lot of things. MarkE is anti-evolution because he doesn't want
    the Bible to be wrong about nature. Stick still wants to believe some
    of the young earth nonsense because he doesn't want the Bible to be
    wrong about those things. Sticks has enough on the ball to understand
    that the earth and universe are a lot older than the Bible has been >interpreted it to be, but he still wants the Bible to not be wrong about >some of the young earth claims about the creation.

    Harran still wants the Bible to be correct about the creation, so he has
    to deny that it has always been shown to be wrong about what we could
    figure out for ourselves. None of them can accept that the human
    authors of the Bible just did not fully understand what the creation >actually was, and just like all the Church fathers they wrote about what >they thought that they understood, but it was obviously wrong. None of
    them can deal with the fact that there isn't a single god-did-it
    Biblical claim that has been verified by science or what passed as
    science in the past. They understand that there has been 100% failure
    for their efforts because if they had any successes they would be
    crowing about those instead of wallowing in denial like Harran and the >others. The denial is all that they have left.

    Ron, disagree with me if you like but please stop TELLING LIES about
    me.

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  • From RonO@rokimoto557@gmail.com to talk-origins on Tue Feb 24 11:23:28 2026
    From Newsgroup: talk.origins

    On 2/24/2026 9:41 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:22:19 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 2/23/2026 2:52 PM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:07:00 -0600
    RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 2/23/2026 7:03 AM, Martin Harran wrote:

    [about the RC church' postion on geocentrisism in mediavel times]

    Church was wrong or right; I don't care.
    It's not really about Origins is it? - and you both keep repeating
    yourselves. Let it go.



    This is the same type of Biblical denial that you repeatedly address
    with the Biblical creationists that are left posting. There really
    isn't any difference. Just think about it for a minute. Harran doesn't
    want the Bible to have been wrong about anything. He wants to make
    believe that it has always been faulty interpretation, but the
    interpretations have always been faulty because the Bible is just wrong
    about a lot of things. MarkE is anti-evolution because he doesn't want
    the Bible to be wrong about nature. Stick still wants to believe some
    of the young earth nonsense because he doesn't want the Bible to be
    wrong about those things. Sticks has enough on the ball to understand
    that the earth and universe are a lot older than the Bible has been
    interpreted it to be, but he still wants the Bible to not be wrong about
    some of the young earth claims about the creation.

    Harran still wants the Bible to be correct about the creation, so he has
    to deny that it has always been shown to be wrong about what we could
    figure out for ourselves. None of them can accept that the human
    authors of the Bible just did not fully understand what the creation
    actually was, and just like all the Church fathers they wrote about what
    they thought that they understood, but it was obviously wrong. None of
    them can deal with the fact that there isn't a single god-did-it
    Biblical claim that has been verified by science or what passed as
    science in the past. They understand that there has been 100% failure
    for their efforts because if they had any successes they would be
    crowing about those instead of wallowing in denial like Harran and the
    others. The denial is all that they have left.

    Ron, disagree with me if you like but please stop TELLING LIES about
    me.

    You are the one quote mining in order to remain in denial of reality.
    You should just stop lying about the situation and deal with reality as
    it exists, and not what you want to keep believing about it.

    Ron Okimoto

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  • From Martin Harran@martinharran@gmail.com to talk-origins on Thu Feb 26 09:33:07 2026
    From Newsgroup: talk.origins

    On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:23:28 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 2/24/2026 9:41 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:22:19 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 2/23/2026 2:52 PM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:07:00 -0600
    RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 2/23/2026 7:03 AM, Martin Harran wrote:

    [about the RC church' postion on geocentrisism in mediavel times]

    Church was wrong or right; I don't care.
    It's not really about Origins is it? - and you both keep repeating
    yourselves. Let it go.



    This is the same type of Biblical denial that you repeatedly address
    with the Biblical creationists that are left posting. There really
    isn't any difference. Just think about it for a minute. Harran doesn't >>> want the Bible to have been wrong about anything. He wants to make
    believe that it has always been faulty interpretation, but the
    interpretations have always been faulty because the Bible is just wrong
    about a lot of things. MarkE is anti-evolution because he doesn't want
    the Bible to be wrong about nature. Stick still wants to believe some
    of the young earth nonsense because he doesn't want the Bible to be
    wrong about those things. Sticks has enough on the ball to understand
    that the earth and universe are a lot older than the Bible has been
    interpreted it to be, but he still wants the Bible to not be wrong about >>> some of the young earth claims about the creation.

    Harran still wants the Bible to be correct about the creation, so he has >>> to deny that it has always been shown to be wrong about what we could
    figure out for ourselves. None of them can accept that the human
    authors of the Bible just did not fully understand what the creation
    actually was, and just like all the Church fathers they wrote about what >>> they thought that they understood, but it was obviously wrong. None of
    them can deal with the fact that there isn't a single god-did-it
    Biblical claim that has been verified by science or what passed as
    science in the past. They understand that there has been 100% failure
    for their efforts because if they had any successes they would be
    crowing about those instead of wallowing in denial like Harran and the
    others. The denial is all that they have left.

    Ron, disagree with me if you like but please stop TELLING LIES about
    me.

    You are the one quote mining in order to remain in denial of reality.
    You should just stop lying about the situation and deal with reality as
    it exists, and not what you want to keep believing about it.


    Yet more lies as demonstrated by the fact that despite you constantly
    accuse me of quote mining, you have yet to produce a single example of
    me doing so.

    I have persevered here because I have always had respect for your
    scientific expertise and I hated to see someone of your intelligence
    making such an idiot of themselves. I now have to accept, however,
    that the situation is irretrievable - your rationality is long gone
    out the window along with any sense of moral decency. I will now
    accept that and like just about everybody else here, simply ignore
    your hysterical ranting and raving.

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  • From RonO@rokimoto557@gmail.com to talk-origins on Thu Feb 26 09:48:32 2026
    From Newsgroup: talk.origins

    On 2/26/2026 3:33 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:23:28 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 2/24/2026 9:41 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:22:19 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 2/23/2026 2:52 PM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:07:00 -0600
    RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 2/23/2026 7:03 AM, Martin Harran wrote:

    [about the RC church' postion on geocentrisism in mediavel times]

    Church was wrong or right; I don't care.
    It's not really about Origins is it? - and you both keep repeating
    yourselves. Let it go.



    This is the same type of Biblical denial that you repeatedly address
    with the Biblical creationists that are left posting. There really
    isn't any difference. Just think about it for a minute. Harran doesn't >>>> want the Bible to have been wrong about anything. He wants to make
    believe that it has always been faulty interpretation, but the
    interpretations have always been faulty because the Bible is just wrong >>>> about a lot of things. MarkE is anti-evolution because he doesn't want >>>> the Bible to be wrong about nature. Stick still wants to believe some >>>> of the young earth nonsense because he doesn't want the Bible to be
    wrong about those things. Sticks has enough on the ball to understand >>>> that the earth and universe are a lot older than the Bible has been
    interpreted it to be, but he still wants the Bible to not be wrong about >>>> some of the young earth claims about the creation.

    Harran still wants the Bible to be correct about the creation, so he has >>>> to deny that it has always been shown to be wrong about what we could
    figure out for ourselves. None of them can accept that the human
    authors of the Bible just did not fully understand what the creation
    actually was, and just like all the Church fathers they wrote about what >>>> they thought that they understood, but it was obviously wrong. None of >>>> them can deal with the fact that there isn't a single god-did-it
    Biblical claim that has been verified by science or what passed as
    science in the past. They understand that there has been 100% failure >>>> for their efforts because if they had any successes they would be
    crowing about those instead of wallowing in denial like Harran and the >>>> others. The denial is all that they have left.

    Ron, disagree with me if you like but please stop TELLING LIES about
    me.

    You are the one quote mining in order to remain in denial of reality.
    You should just stop lying about the situation and deal with reality as
    it exists, and not what you want to keep believing about it.


    Yet more lies as demonstrated by the fact that despite you constantly
    accuse me of quote mining, you have yet to produce a single example of
    me doing so.

    Why lie? Just explain what you did above. It was obviously quote
    mining. You took a bit of the condemnation to claim something that was
    not claimed in the document. That is quote mining.

    You have tried to make believe that what was in the first draft of the document negated the reason why your source had been caught lying, when
    it did no such thing. The Pope condemned heliocentrism and agreed with placing the heliocentric writings in the Index and banning them as
    heretical material. Your source was wrong about heliocentrism never
    being condemned by except by the Inquisition. They lied to maintain
    your side of the issue. Your side of the issue is the one that keeps
    coming up short.


    I have persevered here because I have always had respect for your
    scientific expertise and I hated to see someone of your intelligence
    making such an idiot of themselves. I now have to accept, however,
    that the situation is irretrievable - your rationality is long gone
    out the window along with any sense of moral decency. I will now
    accept that and like just about everybody else here, simply ignore
    your hysterical ranting and raving.


    You have been dishonest and you have needed to wallow in a denial that
    just does not matter. At this point in time science is only going to determine how wrong the Bible is about the creation. For those that
    believe that nature is the creation, it has already been determined that
    the creation that exists is not Biblical. You acknowledge that some of
    the early church fathers understood this to be true. Their faith was
    not based on what the Bible claimed about the creation. For some stupid reason you need to cling to the same denial that MarkE and Sticks have
    to wallow in. The denial will never change reality. The Bible has been "misinterpreted" about many things that we have been able to determine
    for ourselves. That is just a fact. It can be "misinterpreted" because
    it is just wrong about some things. Just like the church fathers wrote
    about things as if the universe was geocentric, the authors of the Bible obviously wrote about things as they understood them, but their
    understanding of the creation was just wrong. They did not actually understand what they were writing about. They did not know about
    microbes. They were using a cosmology that they had gotten from their neighbors that had been civilized for a longer period of time. The
    world isn't flat, the universe is not geocentric, the universe and the
    earth are very old, and life has existed on this planet for billions of
    years. The Greeks had estimated the circumference of the earth a couple
    of centuries before Christ was born and some of the authors of the New Testament were likely flat earth creationists. The Bible can be "misinterpreted" because it is just wrong about a lot of things.

    You have never been honest in your approach to this issue. That should change. There are still geocentric Christians for the simple reason
    that they need to wallow in more denial than you do. They do not want
    the Bible to have been "misinterpreted". The actions of the Pope and
    the Inquisition in 1616 are totally justified because the creation is geocentric.

    Your quote about Pope Francis indicates that he understands that the
    Bible can be misinterpreted because it is written in such a way that it
    needs to be misinterpreted. What the Bible claims is just wrong, and it
    needs another interpretation. If we wrote the Bible today we can still
    be wrong about some things about what actually exists as the creation.

    Ron Okimoto

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  • From Martin Harran@martinharran@gmail.com to talk-origins on Thu Feb 26 16:42:54 2026
    From Newsgroup: talk.origins

    On Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:48:32 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 2/26/2026 3:33 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:23:28 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 2/24/2026 9:41 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:22:19 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 2/23/2026 2:52 PM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:07:00 -0600
    RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 2/23/2026 7:03 AM, Martin Harran wrote:

    [about the RC church' postion on geocentrisism in mediavel times]

    Church was wrong or right; I don't care.
    It's not really about Origins is it? - and you both keep repeating >>>>>> yourselves. Let it go.



    This is the same type of Biblical denial that you repeatedly address >>>>> with the Biblical creationists that are left posting. There really
    isn't any difference. Just think about it for a minute. Harran doesn't >>>>> want the Bible to have been wrong about anything. He wants to make
    believe that it has always been faulty interpretation, but the
    interpretations have always been faulty because the Bible is just wrong >>>>> about a lot of things. MarkE is anti-evolution because he doesn't want >>>>> the Bible to be wrong about nature. Stick still wants to believe some >>>>> of the young earth nonsense because he doesn't want the Bible to be
    wrong about those things. Sticks has enough on the ball to understand >>>>> that the earth and universe are a lot older than the Bible has been
    interpreted it to be, but he still wants the Bible to not be wrong about >>>>> some of the young earth claims about the creation.

    Harran still wants the Bible to be correct about the creation, so he has >>>>> to deny that it has always been shown to be wrong about what we could >>>>> figure out for ourselves. None of them can accept that the human
    authors of the Bible just did not fully understand what the creation >>>>> actually was, and just like all the Church fathers they wrote about what >>>>> they thought that they understood, but it was obviously wrong. None of >>>>> them can deal with the fact that there isn't a single god-did-it
    Biblical claim that has been verified by science or what passed as
    science in the past. They understand that there has been 100% failure >>>>> for their efforts because if they had any successes they would be
    crowing about those instead of wallowing in denial like Harran and the >>>>> others. The denial is all that they have left.

    Ron, disagree with me if you like but please stop TELLING LIES about
    me.

    You are the one quote mining in order to remain in denial of reality.
    You should just stop lying about the situation and deal with reality as
    it exists, and not what you want to keep believing about it.


    Yet more lies as demonstrated by the fact that despite you constantly
    accuse me of quote mining, you have yet to produce a single example of
    me doing so.

    Why lie? Just explain what you did above. It was obviously quote
    mining. You took a bit of the condemnation to claim something that was
    not claimed in the document. That is quote mining.

    You have tried to make believe that what was in the first draft of the >document negated the reason why your source had been caught lying, when
    it did no such thing. The Pope condemned heliocentrism and agreed with >placing the heliocentric writings in the Index and banning them as
    heretical material. Your source was wrong about heliocentrism never
    being condemned by except by the Inquisition. They lied to maintain
    your side of the issue. Your side of the issue is the one that keeps
    coming up short.


    I have persevered here because I have always had respect for your
    scientific expertise and I hated to see someone of your intelligence
    making such an idiot of themselves. I now have to accept, however,
    that the situation is irretrievable - your rationality is long gone
    out the window along with any sense of moral decency. I will now
    accept that and like just about everybody else here, simply ignore
    your hysterical ranting and raving.


    You have been dishonest and you have needed to wallow in a denial that
    just does not matter. At this point in time science is only going to >determine how wrong the Bible is about the creation. For those that
    believe that nature is the creation, it has already been determined that
    the creation that exists is not Biblical. You acknowledge that some of
    the early church fathers understood this to be true. Their faith was
    not based on what the Bible claimed about the creation. For some stupid >reason you need to cling to the same denial that MarkE and Sticks have
    to wallow in. The denial will never change reality. The Bible has been >"misinterpreted" about many things that we have been able to determine
    for ourselves. That is just a fact. It can be "misinterpreted" because
    it is just wrong about some things. Just like the church fathers wrote >about things as if the universe was geocentric, the authors of the Bible >obviously wrote about things as they understood them, but their >understanding of the creation was just wrong. They did not actually >understand what they were writing about. They did not know about
    microbes. They were using a cosmology that they had gotten from their >neighbors that had been civilized for a longer period of time. The
    world isn't flat, the universe is not geocentric, the universe and the
    earth are very old, and life has existed on this planet for billions of >years. The Greeks had estimated the circumference of the earth a couple
    of centuries before Christ was born and some of the authors of the New >Testament were likely flat earth creationists. The Bible can be >"misinterpreted" because it is just wrong about a lot of things.

    You have never been honest in your approach to this issue. That should >change. There are still geocentric Christians for the simple reason
    that they need to wallow in more denial than you do. They do not want
    the Bible to have been "misinterpreted". The actions of the Pope and
    the Inquisition in 1616 are totally justified because the creation is >geocentric.

    Your quote about Pope Francis indicates that he understands that the
    Bible can be misinterpreted because it is written in such a way that it >needs to be misinterpreted. What the Bible claims is just wrong, and it >needs another interpretation. If we wrote the Bible today we can still
    be wrong about some things about what actually exists as the creation.


    That's ok, Ron, keep convincing yourself because somehow I don't
    reckon are convincing anyone else.

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  • From RonO@rokimoto557@gmail.com to talk-origins on Thu Feb 26 12:50:20 2026
    From Newsgroup: talk.origins

    On 2/26/2026 10:42 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:48:32 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 2/26/2026 3:33 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:23:28 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 2/24/2026 9:41 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:22:19 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 2/23/2026 2:52 PM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:07:00 -0600
    RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 2/23/2026 7:03 AM, Martin Harran wrote:

    [about the RC church' postion on geocentrisism in mediavel times] >>>>>>>
    Church was wrong or right; I don't care.
    It's not really about Origins is it? - and you both keep repeating >>>>>>> yourselves. Let it go.



    This is the same type of Biblical denial that you repeatedly address >>>>>> with the Biblical creationists that are left posting. There really >>>>>> isn't any difference. Just think about it for a minute. Harran doesn't >>>>>> want the Bible to have been wrong about anything. He wants to make >>>>>> believe that it has always been faulty interpretation, but the
    interpretations have always been faulty because the Bible is just wrong >>>>>> about a lot of things. MarkE is anti-evolution because he doesn't want >>>>>> the Bible to be wrong about nature. Stick still wants to believe some >>>>>> of the young earth nonsense because he doesn't want the Bible to be >>>>>> wrong about those things. Sticks has enough on the ball to understand >>>>>> that the earth and universe are a lot older than the Bible has been >>>>>> interpreted it to be, but he still wants the Bible to not be wrong about >>>>>> some of the young earth claims about the creation.

    Harran still wants the Bible to be correct about the creation, so he has >>>>>> to deny that it has always been shown to be wrong about what we could >>>>>> figure out for ourselves. None of them can accept that the human
    authors of the Bible just did not fully understand what the creation >>>>>> actually was, and just like all the Church fathers they wrote about what >>>>>> they thought that they understood, but it was obviously wrong. None of >>>>>> them can deal with the fact that there isn't a single god-did-it
    Biblical claim that has been verified by science or what passed as >>>>>> science in the past. They understand that there has been 100% failure >>>>>> for their efforts because if they had any successes they would be
    crowing about those instead of wallowing in denial like Harran and the >>>>>> others. The denial is all that they have left.

    Ron, disagree with me if you like but please stop TELLING LIES about >>>>> me.

    You are the one quote mining in order to remain in denial of reality.
    You should just stop lying about the situation and deal with reality as >>>> it exists, and not what you want to keep believing about it.


    Yet more lies as demonstrated by the fact that despite you constantly
    accuse me of quote mining, you have yet to produce a single example of
    me doing so.

    Why lie? Just explain what you did above. It was obviously quote
    mining. You took a bit of the condemnation to claim something that was
    not claimed in the document. That is quote mining.

    You have tried to make believe that what was in the first draft of the
    document negated the reason why your source had been caught lying, when
    it did no such thing. The Pope condemned heliocentrism and agreed with
    placing the heliocentric writings in the Index and banning them as
    heretical material. Your source was wrong about heliocentrism never
    being condemned by except by the Inquisition. They lied to maintain
    your side of the issue. Your side of the issue is the one that keeps
    coming up short.


    I have persevered here because I have always had respect for your
    scientific expertise and I hated to see someone of your intelligence
    making such an idiot of themselves. I now have to accept, however,
    that the situation is irretrievable - your rationality is long gone
    out the window along with any sense of moral decency. I will now
    accept that and like just about everybody else here, simply ignore
    your hysterical ranting and raving.


    You have been dishonest and you have needed to wallow in a denial that
    just does not matter. At this point in time science is only going to
    determine how wrong the Bible is about the creation. For those that
    believe that nature is the creation, it has already been determined that
    the creation that exists is not Biblical. You acknowledge that some of
    the early church fathers understood this to be true. Their faith was
    not based on what the Bible claimed about the creation. For some stupid
    reason you need to cling to the same denial that MarkE and Sticks have
    to wallow in. The denial will never change reality. The Bible has been
    "misinterpreted" about many things that we have been able to determine
    for ourselves. That is just a fact. It can be "misinterpreted" because
    it is just wrong about some things. Just like the church fathers wrote
    about things as if the universe was geocentric, the authors of the Bible
    obviously wrote about things as they understood them, but their
    understanding of the creation was just wrong. They did not actually
    understand what they were writing about. They did not know about
    microbes. They were using a cosmology that they had gotten from their
    neighbors that had been civilized for a longer period of time. The
    world isn't flat, the universe is not geocentric, the universe and the
    earth are very old, and life has existed on this planet for billions of
    years. The Greeks had estimated the circumference of the earth a couple
    of centuries before Christ was born and some of the authors of the New
    Testament were likely flat earth creationists. The Bible can be
    "misinterpreted" because it is just wrong about a lot of things.

    You have never been honest in your approach to this issue. That should
    change. There are still geocentric Christians for the simple reason
    that they need to wallow in more denial than you do. They do not want
    the Bible to have been "misinterpreted". The actions of the Pope and
    the Inquisition in 1616 are totally justified because the creation is
    geocentric.

    Your quote about Pope Francis indicates that he understands that the
    Bible can be misinterpreted because it is written in such a way that it
    needs to be misinterpreted. What the Bible claims is just wrong, and it
    needs another interpretation. If we wrote the Bible today we can still
    be wrong about some things about what actually exists as the creation.


    That's ok, Ron, keep convincing yourself because somehow I don't
    reckon are convincing anyone else.


    Declaring victory and running from what you did should be familiar to
    all posters on TO. What is so unconvincing about you running from quote mining, and putting up a source that got caught lying about the issue?
    You were dishonest in order to try to keep supporting your sources that
    you understood to be unreliable. Reality isn't going to change by
    running from it and wallowing in denial. Your source was wrong. Quote
    mining the document was never going to change that fact.

    Ron Okimoto

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  • From jillery@69jpil69@gmail.com to talk-origins on Sat Feb 28 09:16:15 2026
    From Newsgroup: talk.origins

    On Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:33:07 +0000, Martin Harran
    <martinharran@gmail.com> wrote:
    On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:23:28 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 2/24/2026 9:41 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:22:19 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 2/23/2026 2:52 PM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:07:00 -0600
    RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 2/23/2026 7:03 AM, Martin Harran wrote:

    [about the RC church' postion on geocentrisism in mediavel times]

    Church was wrong or right; I don't care.
    It's not really about Origins is it? - and you both keep repeating
    yourselves. Let it go.



    This is the same type of Biblical denial that you repeatedly address
    with the Biblical creationists that are left posting. There really
    isn't any difference. Just think about it for a minute. Harran doesn't >>>> want the Bible to have been wrong about anything. He wants to make
    believe that it has always been faulty interpretation, but the
    interpretations have always been faulty because the Bible is just wrong >>>> about a lot of things. MarkE is anti-evolution because he doesn't want >>>> the Bible to be wrong about nature. Stick still wants to believe some >>>> of the young earth nonsense because he doesn't want the Bible to be
    wrong about those things. Sticks has enough on the ball to understand >>>> that the earth and universe are a lot older than the Bible has been
    interpreted it to be, but he still wants the Bible to not be wrong about >>>> some of the young earth claims about the creation.

    Harran still wants the Bible to be correct about the creation, so he has >>>> to deny that it has always been shown to be wrong about what we could
    figure out for ourselves. None of them can accept that the human
    authors of the Bible just did not fully understand what the creation
    actually was, and just like all the Church fathers they wrote about what >>>> they thought that they understood, but it was obviously wrong. None of >>>> them can deal with the fact that there isn't a single god-did-it
    Biblical claim that has been verified by science or what passed as
    science in the past. They understand that there has been 100% failure >>>> for their efforts because if they had any successes they would be
    crowing about those instead of wallowing in denial like Harran and the >>>> others. The denial is all that they have left.

    Ron, disagree with me if you like but please stop TELLING LIES about
    me.

    You are the one quote mining in order to remain in denial of reality.
    You should just stop lying about the situation and deal with reality as
    it exists, and not what you want to keep believing about it.


    Yet more lies as demonstrated by the fact that despite you constantly
    accuse me of quote mining, you have yet to produce a single example of
    me doing so.

    I have persevered here because I have always had respect for your
    scientific expertise and I hated to see someone of your intelligence
    making such an idiot of themselves. I now have to accept, however,
    that the situation is irretrievable - your rationality is long gone
    out the window along with any sense of moral decency. I will now
    accept that and like just about everybody else here, simply ignore
    your hysterical ranting and raving.
    Of all the posters here, Harran is the least qualified to speak for
    "everybody else".
    --
    To know less than we don't know is the nature of most knowledge
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  • From Martin Harran@martinharran@gmail.com to talk-origins on Mon Mar 2 16:18:32 2026
    From Newsgroup: talk.origins

    On Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:48:32 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 2/26/2026 3:33 AM, Martin Harran wrote:


    [...]


    Yet more lies as demonstrated by the fact that despite you constantly
    accuse me of quote mining, you have yet to produce a single example of
    me doing so.

    Why lie? Just explain what you did above. It was obviously quote
    mining. You took a bit of the condemnation to claim something that was
    not claimed in the document. That is quote mining.

    Yet again you accuse me of something of which you cannot produce even
    a single example.

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  • From RonO@rokimoto557@gmail.com to talk-origins on Mon Mar 2 14:36:34 2026
    From Newsgroup: talk.origins

    On 3/2/2026 10:18 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:48:32 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 2/26/2026 3:33 AM, Martin Harran wrote:


    [...]


    Yet more lies as demonstrated by the fact that despite you constantly
    accuse me of quote mining, you have yet to produce a single example of
    me doing so.

    Why lie? Just explain what you did above. It was obviously quote
    mining. You took a bit of the condemnation to claim something that was
    not claimed in the document. That is quote mining.

    Yet again you accuse me of something of which you cannot produce even
    a single example.


    Why keep lying? You are the one that lied about running from your
    source being wrong about the church condemnation of heliocentrism. Your source was found to be unreliable, and you ran. You kept lying about
    running, and you had to confront what you had run from, and in order to
    try to make believe that your source was still reliable in the face of
    the opposite being true, you tried to quote things from the link that
    did not matter, and you quote mined the document ordered to be produced
    by the Pope.

    You know what you did because you have run from doing it and just keep
    lying about what you did.

    QUOTE:
    They declare that "the books by Nicolaus Copernicus (On the
    Revolutions of Spheres) and by Diego de Zu|#iga (On Job) be suspended
    until corrected".

    I've given details of the required corrections to Revolutions in a
    different post to Harshman and they are all minor edits - not one of
    them makes any change to the core principle of heliocentrism. A rather
    weird declaration of heresy that allows Copernicus's book supporting
    it to be published with minor edits that don't undermine his
    proposition.
    END QUOTE:

    This is what part of what you did in order to weasel out of the fact
    that your source had lied about heliocentrism never being condemned
    except by the Inquisition. Heliocentrism had been declared to be
    heretical by the additions to the Index. You understood that, but
    wanted minor edits to claim otherwise, but the minor edits did not apply
    to all the banned and condemned literature.


    This is what I wrote demonstrating that you had quote mined the document.

    QUOTE:
    The Books by Copernicus were never corrected and republished, so his
    writings were banned until removed from the index centuries later. I
    see that you left out the book that could not be corrected and would be permanently banned. Why did you do that? Isn't this quote mining? Heliocentrism was condemned and heliocentric writings were added to the
    Index. End of that story.

    QUOTE:
    Decree
    of the Sacred Congregation of the Most Illustrious Cardinals of the Holy
    Roman Church especially charged by Our Holy Lord Pope Paul V and by the
    Holy Apostolic See with the Index of books and their licensing,
    prohibition, correction, and printing in all of Christendom, to be
    published everywhere.
    In regard to several books containing various heresies and errors, to
    prevent the emergence of more serious harm throughout Christendom, the
    Sacred Congregation of the Most Illustrious Cardinals of the Holy Roman
    Church in charge of the Index has decided that they should be altogether condemned and prohibited, as indeed with the present decree it condemns
    and prohibits them, wherever and in whatever language they are printed
    or about to be printed.
    END QUOTE:

    This is no quote mine, but you can find your quote in the following
    paragraph:

    QUOTE:
    This Holy Congregation has also learned about the spreading and
    acceptance by many of the false Pythagorean doctrine, altogether
    contrary to the Holy Scripture, that the earth moves and the sun is motionless, which is also taught by Nicolaus CopernicusrCOs On the
    Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres and by Diego de Zu|#igarCOs On Job.
    This may be seen from a certain letter published by a certain Carmelite
    Father whose title is Letter of the Reverend Father Paolo Antonio
    Foscarini on the Pythagorean and Copernican Opinion of the EarthrCOs
    Motion and SunrCOs Rest and on the New Pythagorean World System (Naples: Lazzaro Scoriggio, 1615), in which the said Father tries to show that
    the above-!mentioned doctrine of the sunrCOs rest at the center of the
    world and of the earthrCOs motion is consonant with the truth and does not contradict Holy Scripture. Therefore, in order that this opinion may not advance any further to the prejudice of Catholic truth, the Congregation
    has decided that the books by Nicolaus Copernicus (On the Revolutions of Spheres) and by Diego de Zu|#iga (On Job) be suspended until corrected;
    but that the book of the Carmelite Father Paolo Antonio Foscarini be completely prohibited and condemned; and that all other books which
    teach the same be likewise prohibited, according to whether with the
    present Decree it prohibits, condemns, and suspends them respectively.
    END QUOTE:

    You ran from what you did and failed to address what you did. Just go
    back up a few posts and relive what you did. You did not own up to
    quote mining the document, nor did you deny doing it.

    The Jesuits are pretty matter of fact that this was the only instance of
    Papal condemnation of heliocentrism, and that your source lied to you.
    You are the one that has had to resort to quote mining in order to
    support your unreliable sources.

    Ron Okimoto




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  • From Martin Harran@martinharran@gmail.com to talk-origins on Tue Mar 3 09:03:55 2026
    From Newsgroup: talk.origins

    On Mon, 2 Mar 2026 14:36:34 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 3/2/2026 10:18 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:48:32 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 2/26/2026 3:33 AM, Martin Harran wrote:


    [...]


    Yet more lies as demonstrated by the fact that despite you constantly
    accuse me of quote mining, you have yet to produce a single example of >>>> me doing so.

    Why lie? Just explain what you did above. It was obviously quote
    mining. You took a bit of the condemnation to claim something that was
    not claimed in the document. That is quote mining.

    Yet again you accuse me of something of which you cannot produce even
    a single example.


    Why keep lying? You are the one that lied about running from your
    source being wrong about the church condemnation of heliocentrism. Your >source was found to be unreliable, and you ran. You kept lying about >running, and you had to confront what you had run from, and in order to
    try to make believe that your source was still reliable in the face of
    the opposite being true, you tried to quote things from the link that
    did not matter, and you quote mined the document ordered to be produced
    by the Pope.

    You know what you did because you have run from doing it and just keep
    lying about what you did.

    QUOTE:
    They declare that "the books by Nicolaus Copernicus (On the
    Revolutions of Spheres) and by Diego de Zu|#iga (On Job) be suspended
    until corrected".

    I've given details of the required corrections to Revolutions in a
    different post to Harshman and they are all minor edits - not one of
    them makes any change to the core principle of heliocentrism. A rather
    weird declaration of heresy that allows Copernicus's book supporting
    it to be published with minor edits that don't undermine his
    proposition.
    END QUOTE:

    This is what part of what you did in order to weasel out of the fact
    that your source had lied about heliocentrism never being condemned
    except by the Inquisition. Heliocentrism had been declared to be
    heretical by the additions to the Index. You understood that, but
    wanted minor edits to claim otherwise, but the minor edits did not apply
    to all the banned and condemned literature.


    This is what I wrote demonstrating that you had quote mined the document.

    QUOTE:
    The Books by Copernicus were never corrected and republished, so his >writings were banned until removed from the index centuries later. I
    see that you left out the book that could not be corrected and would be >permanently banned. Why did you do that? Isn't this quote mining? >Heliocentrism was condemned and heliocentric writings were added to the >Index. End of that story.

    QUOTE:
    Decree
    of the Sacred Congregation of the Most Illustrious Cardinals of the Holy >Roman Church especially charged by Our Holy Lord Pope Paul V and by the
    Holy Apostolic See with the Index of books and their licensing,
    prohibition, correction, and printing in all of Christendom, to be
    published everywhere.
    In regard to several books containing various heresies and errors, to >prevent the emergence of more serious harm throughout Christendom, the >Sacred Congregation of the Most Illustrious Cardinals of the Holy Roman >Church in charge of the Index has decided that they should be altogether >condemned and prohibited, as indeed with the present decree it condemns
    and prohibits them, wherever and in whatever language they are printed
    or about to be printed.
    END QUOTE:

    This is no quote mine, but you can find your quote in the following >paragraph:

    QUOTE:
    This Holy Congregation has also learned about the spreading and
    acceptance by many of the false Pythagorean doctrine, altogether
    contrary to the Holy Scripture, that the earth moves and the sun is >motionless, which is also taught by Nicolaus CopernicusrCOs On the >Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres and by Diego de Zu|#igarCOs On Job.
    This may be seen from a certain letter published by a certain Carmelite >Father whose title is Letter of the Reverend Father Paolo Antonio
    Foscarini on the Pythagorean and Copernican Opinion of the EarthrCOs
    Motion and SunrCOs Rest and on the New Pythagorean World System (Naples: >Lazzaro Scoriggio, 1615), in which the said Father tries to show that
    the above-!mentioned doctrine of the sunrCOs rest at the center of the
    world and of the earthrCOs motion is consonant with the truth and does not >contradict Holy Scripture. Therefore, in order that this opinion may not >advance any further to the prejudice of Catholic truth, the Congregation
    has decided that the books by Nicolaus Copernicus (On the Revolutions of >Spheres) and by Diego de Zu|#iga (On Job) be suspended until corrected;
    but that the book of the Carmelite Father Paolo Antonio Foscarini be >completely prohibited and condemned; and that all other books which
    teach the same be likewise prohibited, according to whether with the
    present Decree it prohibits, condemns, and suspends them respectively.
    END QUOTE:

    You ran from what you did and failed to address what you did. Just go
    back up a few posts and relive what you did. You did not own up to
    quote mining the document, nor did you deny doing it.

    The Jesuits are pretty matter of fact that this was the only instance of >Papal condemnation of heliocentrism, and that your source lied to you.
    You are the one that has had to resort to quote mining in order to
    support your unreliable sources.


    So you don't understand what quote mining is. Just another subject
    where your lack of understanding doesn't stop you mouthing off about
    it.

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