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1 In 4 Americans Thinks The Sun Goes Around The Earth, Survey Says
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A view of Venus, black dot at top center, passing in front of the sun during a transit in 2012. A quarter of Americans questioned failed to answer correctly the most basic questions on astronomy.
AP
A quarter of Americans surveyed could not correctly answer that the Earth revolves around the sun and not the other way around, according to a report out Friday from the National Science Foundation.
The survey of 2,200 people in the United States was conducted by the NSF in 2012 and released on Friday at an annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Chicago.
To the question “Does the Earth go around the Sun, or does the Sun go around the Earth,” 26 percent of those surveyed answered incorrectly.
In the same survey, just 39 percent answered correctly (true) that “The universe began with a huge explosion” and only 48 percent said “Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals.”
Just over half understood that antibiotics are not effective against viruses.
As alarming as some of those deficits in science knowledge might appear, Americans fared better on several of the questions than similar, but older surveys of their Chinese and European counterparts.
Source: http://truthisscary.com/2015/04/1-in-4-americans-thinks-the-sun-goes-around-the-earth-survey-says/
Perspective is paramount and to slander or judge one as wrong, whilst wielding another as indisputable, is to forever have blinders and doggedly follow dogma which may be challenged by a Galileo, an Aristotle or an Einstein.
… or a Nassim Haramein !
Indeed, by current “scientific” accurate models, the earth does not revolve around the sun; but around a common centre of gravity.
Behold, NO, for the sun and the solar system are hurling through the galaxy; thus it is more accurate to say they are chasing each other through a spiralling phantasmagoria. https://youtu.be/zBlAGGzup48
…and one may go on with detailing a more accurate perspective; but at the end of the day, the sun rises, we plant our crops, harvest our crops, eat, the sun sets, and we go to bed.