[Sherman Logan]

Oddly enough, the heliocentric system was later proven to be just as inaccurate as the Ptolemaic system. FWIW

[AntiGuv]

Oddly enough, the heliocentric system was later proven to be just as inaccurate as the Ptolemaic system.

No, it wasn't - at least not in the macro sense as you've framed it.

[AntiGuv]

By which, to be clear, I mean in the sense of heliocentric vs geocentric. In that sense, the heliocentric system is most certainly not as innacurate as the Ptolemaic system.

[ccmay]

Oddly enough, the heliocentric system was later proven to be just as inaccurate as the Ptolemaic system. FWIW

Rubbish. While it is not perfect, it is qualitatively and quantitatively less wrong than the geocentric model, which in turn is less wrong than the flat-Earth model, which itself is less wrong than the notion that the Earth is the shell of a giant tortoise standing upon an infinite pillar of giant elephants.

Just as relativistic kinetics and dynamics are indistinguishable from Newtonian mechanics at low velocities, and quantum mechanics indistinguishable from Newtonian mechanics for masses larger than subatomic particles, so do all scientific theories approach better and better models of reality.

It is an asymptotic effect. We will never know the mind of God exactly, but through science we come ever closer and closer to perfect knowledge of His creation.

-ccm

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Not as inaccurate. Simply because the orbits were circular rather than elliptical and the stars also orbited, doesn't make it more inaccurate than a model with the celestial objects orbiting the Earth.

BTW, (according to most if not every source) Ptolomy wasn't a Jew or a Christian.