{"id":961,"date":"2010-09-14T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/09\/geocentrism-teach-the-controversy\/"},"modified":"2010-09-14T12:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T12:01:00","slug":"geocentrism-teach-the-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/09\/geocentrism-teach-the-controversy.html","title":{"rendered":"Geocentrism: Teach The Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/controversy.wearscience.com\/img190\/geocentric.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/controversy.wearscience.com\/img190\/geocentric.gif\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/09\/14\/geocentrism-seriously\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Phil Plait is among the latest to comment on the Geocentrism conference<\/a> to be held in Indiana. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to explaining what is wrong with Geocentrism, Phil also included an image that I wanted to share (on the right).<\/p>\n<p>The image is <a href=\"http:\/\/controversy.wearscience.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">available for T-shirts<\/a>. If someone wants to buy me one, I\u2019ll wear it proudly. And they also have <a href=\"http:\/\/controversy.wearscience.com\/design\/devil\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">other<\/a> cool shirts, including <a href=\"http:\/\/wearscience.com\/design\/button\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this one<\/a> which ties in with another recent post here\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-5699101149031902776?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Plait is among the latest to comment on the Geocentrism conference to be held in Indiana. In addition to explaining what is wrong with Geocentrism, Phil also included an image that I wanted to share (on the right). The image is available for T-shirts. 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