The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-01-09
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AE9SG 81V044 LllC6E u1SCONcI1C5 Ny IAlC
Nrch, which refused to receive the
,xknowledge, The speaker then
ntedtout how eventually the Church
ssto acknowledge defeat and now
one Of the finest observatories in
ssvorld.'' d.
EAe Church. never defined that the
,pernican heliocentric system is err
.aeoNs. Whether that system be
esory false the Church goes on her
l;ys accomplishing her divine mission,
u salvation Of men. She deals with
Em to that end;' whether they are
eng, hurled about the sun at the
cpnon ball velocity of nineteen miles
ascond, or whether the sun is sweep
Ours, is matter Of no Importance
their eternal salvation, which is hor
1siness. She can do her work and
sllize her mission in either case. The
after may be Of interest to the in
I'm and legitimate curiosity Of man,
Ar.6thing provided to keep his rest
10 mind busy in innocent employ
..nt, but his ultimate destiny is
: sove and beyond 1t. That ultimate
Sstiny is the objective of the
aurch's action, and the changing
I'd contradictory speculations of sci
Tatists-labelled science-cannot di-
mt her from it.
isDr crapssy's position as stated in
: y above extract may be summed up
:.-the following syllogism, thus:
eeience teaches tho Copernican sys-
I'm Of the universe.
IThs Church condemned that sys-
~.
k'Thersfore the Church erred and Is
st a competent. infallible teacher.
bs1his covers tho ground on this par
pular point. Now we Join issue with
ss Doctor On every statement in this
Rllogism. It's major. its minor, and it's
Conclusion.
First. the major. We object to IT
> Essauss. to say without qualification
PAT science teaches the Copernioan
k9tsm leaves the impression On the
kwaEy reader that science tsaohes
nd has always taught that system.
I'd that science is unerring. Whereas
ne TACT is that science only now, In
'shn,paratively recent years, teaches it,
ast a. 1t formerly taught the opposite
Hstsm Of Ptolemy for fourteen hun
Wed years-from the second to the
Ezteenth century, as it taught other
tr,ally contradictory systems of as
tenomy prior to the second century.
ny system of astronomy that CONTRA
lots its own teachings time ana time
iEaan is not a reliable witness against
te authority Of Church. or State. or
nv other institution.
Hpur other objection to tho major
opposition of the syllogism i. that i.
skos for granted, as an undeniable
EYth, a system that is merely an as
tlJsnption, an hypothesis that has nev-
been demonstrated. Not only has
ee--naver been demonstrated, but If tho
Ecports of recent discoveries be cor
Fect the Copernican system lis demon
ltrated to BE- false. Those discoveries
lave been made, and apparently we'll
by Professor u. G. Nor
.ow; Of the Koreshan Geodetic Sur
fSH who invites the attention of the
scientists of the world
lItd challenges refutation. Astronorn..
srs may frown on him and his claims
Is their predecessors frowned on CO.
sernicus, but If the facts he claims to
1avs demonstrated be true the Copper
Niasn system must be given up, just
as the Ptolen,atc and the older sys-
'snas were given UP.
The first fact he claims to have de-
is that the surface at the
acean is not convex, as the present
system holds, but ooncave.
His second fact, demonstrated ct
The Calumet Mines, Michigan, is that
-wo plu'nb-lines suspended a certain
distance apart will be found to be far
her apart at the bottom than at the
.ap.
These facts are not reconoilable with
The Copernican system Of the uni
verse.
We therefore, until these objections
ire overcome. throw the major Of the
syllogtsm to the winds. Nothing can
W proved by it.
We object to the minor, "the Church
'sndemned the Copernican SYSTEM"
pocause 1t is not true.
we object to the conclusion because
ven If the Church had condemned the
5opernican assumption it would NOT
Drove that she erred, until the assump-
len had been demonstrated, which II !
1as not been.