Posts

Showing posts with the label cosmology

Review: The Church and the Modern University: Who's the Real Enemy of Science? - Robert Sungenis vs David Pence

Image
This morning I was able to listen to a debate entitled  The Church and the Modern University: Who's the Real Enemy of Science? - Robert Sungenis vs David Pence. You can purchase the debate here . I just wanted to offer a few reactions. I know it will be argued that I am biased on this topic, and I am. However, as I point out below, I was not always a geocentrist. I have come to accept the position over time. In any case, as far as debates go, clearly, Dr. Pence was ill-prepared for this debate and possibly presumed he would easily win over his home-court fans in the audience with his preceding reputation, his entertaining jokes, presentation style, and generalizations on Church teaching as well as logical fallacies towards Sungenis by equating his position with atheists and protestants. Pence's case, if it could be distilled is: We are in the 21st century and no modern pope or cleric believes or teaches that the Earth is the center of the universe, besides, look at the o...