You didn't ask me about my strong irrefutable evidence. Are you not keen to know The Miracle that challenges all people at the age of mind??
I'm sort of going after the Occam's Razor on the debating topic, here. Either I can prove that the Earth goes around the Sun, or you can prove an entire religion.
If the sun revolves then we revolve with it, how can we see stars fixed at one ???
If stars revolve each in a different orbit, why stars are fixed at one shape??
If the earth moves around itself, why the movement of water and air is not affected??
Well, for one, stars aren't terribly fixed. Note that I said one year.
There's a thing I heard when I was a kid. "Look for the north star to go north." That's the
Pole Star. The reason for this is because the "Pole star" appears to be straight north of our pole, and it seems to always be there over short periods of times. However, that's only short periods of times. I hate to quote wikipedia as a main point in a debate, but it highlights the issue quite clearly. Currently, Polaris is the North Star. We predict, however, that:
Gamma Cephei (also known as Alrai, situated 45 light-years away) will become closer to the northern celestial pole than Polaris around AD 3000. Iota Cephei will become the pole star some time around AD 5200.
First-magnitude Deneb will be within 5° of the North Pole in AD 10000.
The brilliant Vega in the constellation Lyra is often touted as the best North Star (it fulfilled that role around 12000 BC and will do so again around the year AD 14000). However, it never comes closer than 5° to the pole.
Eventually we will behold witness to a new north star, depending on what time we're at. We have changed over the observable history of Earth, where:
In 3000 BC the faint star Thuban in the constellation Draco was the North Star. At magnitude 3.67 (fourth magnitude) it is only one-fifth as bright as Polaris, and today it is invisible in light-polluted urban skies.
As for fixed in one shape, the constellations become less consistent in our view as time goes on. There are a few that we've stopped observing because they're no longer in an appropriate location. The reason they so
slowly blink out of existence is because of the massive distance between us and them. Plus, even if they did move swiftly, our distance in light years means that it will be a long, long time before we can observe movement in case they did suddenly move or die out.
Lastly, for the spinning not affecting the water, it does. I'm not a great climatologist or geologist, but we owe our spherical-ish shape to our rotation. The force of gravity and movement forced us in to a spherical oblong shape. We owe a bit of our tidal forces to it as well, plus the whole night-and-day thing with us facing the moon and sun.
You may imagine a balloon with static electricity losing things attached to it when you spin it as reason for the spinning to throw us off. This discounts gravity being much stronger than spinning, however, and "centrifugal force". I can go over this if needed, but I have little on hand at the moment (in regards to time and sources).
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