St. Augustine: "he could scarcely keep from laughing"

"It not infrequently happens that something about the earth, about the sky, about other elements of this world, about the motion and rotation or even the magnitude and distances of the stars, about definite eclipses of the sun and moon, . . . and of other such things, may be known with the greatest certainty by reasoning or by experience, even by one who is not a Christian. It is too disgraceful and ruinous, though, and greatly to be avoided, that he should hear a Christian speaking so idiotically on these matters, and as if in accord with Christian writings, that he might say that he could scarcely keep from laughing when he saw how totally in error they are."

–St. Augustine, The Literal Interpretation of Genesis 1:19–20, Chapt. 19

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Anonymous said...

While we are debunking Geocentrism, let's also work on debunking Einstein's theory of relativity.

James