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How We Found the Universe (Science and Faith)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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Aristotle's Rejection of Action at a Distance

Aristotle believed that there is no such thing as action at a distance. He thought the universe was a series of transparent spheres nested one inside another. If you don't think of earth as moving, if you think it'sm onless at the center of a bunch of transparent spheres then you need to account for how the planets start moving backwards in the sky.

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