The Geocentrism Challenge
Catholic Apologetics International
CAI will write a check for $1,000 to the first person who can prove that the earth revolves around the sun.
Along the same lines of reason (and I use the term as loosely as possible), I guess you could argue that the earth revolves around the moon, that the whole galaxy revolves around Jerusalem or Vatican City, or some other relativistic* nonesense. When there are nine (or eight or ten, depending on who you ask) planets with an orbit that centers around approximately the same point, it seems somewhere between absurd and institutionally insane to insist that all those objects are actually orbitting around the earth instead.
*Note: I don’t care if I’m misusing this word. I’m not talking about the speed of light or the physics theory, I’m talking about the philosophical concept.
Update: Great challenge analysis summary here, asking the challenger for more details.
