[allmendream]

It also became increasingly untenable to insist upon “epicycles within epicycles” to explain how everything could be moving around a motionless Earth.

Data convinced people, good God fearing Christian people, that a literlist interpretation of Psalm 104:5 was in error.

Now nearly everyone in the Christian world accepts that the Earth circles the Sun, and that Psalm 104:5 doesn't mean anything more than that God made the Earth a safe place for us, a secure foundation.

[gondramB]

Those were the predictions I was referring too.

in much the same way, it is useful predictions (i.e. not predicted correctly by any other means) that make developmental biology the current theory today and its the lack of useful predictions that prevent ID or any young earth theory from being current science.

And science class should really teach current science.