DP: Let me say at the outset that I’d be happy to discuss the matter of the ether and the Michelson‐Morley experiment further on the Non Sequitur Show. This has been a central argument in the controversy. As I’ll lay out below, I don’t think this works out well for the geocentric viewpoint and I’d be willing to unpack that in another discussion.

RS: After reviewing your comments below, I think your whole case stands or falls on how you have interpreted the 1887 Michelson‐Morley experiment, and the related experiments, such as the 1913 Sagnac experiment, the 1925 Michelson‐Gale experiment, and the 2000s sapphire resonator experiments. Suffice it to say, I am now convinced beyond a doubt that you
misinterpret them.

On July 30, 2014, the then future president of Catholic Answers gave a lecture on the Galileo affair, which was hosted by the Institute of Catholic Culture. The title of the lecture was, “Galileo on Trial: Why the Church was Right,” but you would never guess that title from listening to what Mr. Check actually says in the lecture.

Make no mistake about it. Science is more like a religion these days than it is empirical science. If you want to see examples of this, take a gander at the recent controversy elicited by the article that appeared in Scientific American titled, “Pop Goes the Universe,” when several well‐known and respected mainstream physicists called the Inflation theory Of the Big Bang utter bunkum.