geocentrist

comparative more geocentrist · superlative most geocentrist

1. Of or pertaining to geocentrism, the false belief the Sun revolves around the Earth.

   What about geocentrist Christians?

   2000 November 9, Ron Okimoto <rokimoto6751@my-deja.com>, “Re: Flat Earth a myth concocted to attack Christianity?”, in talk.origins (Usenet), via Google Groups, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2026

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   [Title:] Are Republicans Necessarily Geocentrist?

   2006 December 29, Didier de Fontaine, “Are Republicans Necessarily Geocentrist?”, in Academic Questions, volume 20, number 1 (letter), via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 6

   The quintessential example of religious faith stopping science is Galileo Galilei’s house arrest by the Roman Catholic Inquisition when he began supporting heliocentrism (the Earth revolves around the sun) instead of the geocentrist views supported by the church (the sun revolves around the Earth).

   2021 September 29, By Adam Pierce, “The strength of science is in change”, in Freethought Today, volume 38, number 7, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 14

plural geocentrists

1. A supporter of geocentrism, the false belief that the Sun revolves around the Earth.

   When a geocentrist says "planet" and a heliocentrist says "planet," the context is so different as to render them unable even to communicate with each other.

   2010 August 29, Jason Griffey, “Ebook Sanity”, in Library Journal, volume 135, number 13, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 26

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   The intense hostility expressed by the scientific creationists toward the flat-earthers does not extend to the geocentrists, who hover on the edge of respectability among scientific creationists.

   1981, Robert Schadewald, “Scientific Creationism, Geocentricity and the Flat Earth: These three movements have more in common than they like to acknowledge”, in The Skeptical Inquirer, volume 6, number 2, via Internet Archive, page 42

   [W]hile Aristotle (d. 322 BCE) rejected most of the prevailing narrative-based beliefs of his fellow Greeks (e.g., the Olympian deities), he was nevertheless a geocentrist who argued that the stationary Earth was surrounded by celestial spheres in an eternal but finite universe consisting of five elements created by a great deity, the Prime Mover

   2026 March 29, Jeffry R. Halverson, “Carl Sagan as a Theorist of Religion”, in Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science, volume 61, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, page 122