If there's one constant, it's that there are crackpots EVERYWHERE.  :-)

Dave

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 04:40:46PM -0800, Craig Lalley wrote:
>           A debate between an Iraqi "Researcher on Astronomy" and a physicist on Iraqi television. Apparently, this is an important question in the Islamic world...
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> -From the transcript-
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> Interviewer: Lunar and solar eclipses, sunset and sunrise, and the changing of seasons -- how would you explain all these phenomena, if the Earth is not round, as you claim?
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> Fadhel Al-Sa'd: The sun circles the Earth because it is smaller than the Earth, as is evident in Koranic verses.
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> Have you ever seen how the sun moves? I have seen the sun moving. The sun makes one move every 24 hours.
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>   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wppjYDj9JUc
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>   -Craig
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