Chapter 81 [Case Analysis] <The sun revolves around the earth and God created the world>

In Christian theology, some theologians made the following argument when explaining that the earth is the center of the solar system: The sun was created by God to light the earth, just like people always move the torch to light the house instead of moving the house to be lit by the torch.Therefore, it can only be the sun orbiting the earth, not the earth orbiting the sun. In order to prove the existence of God, some theologians argue that: Clocks and watches have their structures and laws of motion, and clocks and watches all have their makers; the world has its structures and laws of motion; therefore, the world must also have its makers or creators, that is God.

The above two proofs are all analogical reasoning under the guidance of the religious world view that God created the world, so they cannot be correct. Taking the previous analogy, it seems to people that the sun revolves around the earth, but this is an illusion, and the opposite is actually the case.It is this illusion that theologians have exploited, drawing the analogy that the sun illuminates the earth to the way a moving torch illuminates the surface of a house, to conclude that the sun revolves around the earth.This analogy cannot be established.Because both the earth and the sun are constantly rotating (the earth has a revolution in addition to its rotation), but the house is stationary relative to the moving torch.Therefore, the two fundamentally different situations cannot be compared.

The latter analogy also fails.Because there is no necessary connection between structure, law and maker.Any law exists objectively, without a creator.People invented clocks and watches according to the law of mechanical motion of matter, and they definitely did not create the law of clock and watch motion.The laws of a clock's movement exist independently of its inventor.