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(a rather off topic, but modern science and Christian theology have fundamentally incompatible philosophy - ie the way of thinking is oppositional. Whereas science is strictly based on observation of the material world to derive truth of how the world works, Christian theology is by and large based on faith with already given supernatural answers to how the world works. Quite the opposite on all fields. Some scientists may believe in God, but science itself does not, because he cannot be observed, and the events that transpired in the Bible are in direct contradiction to history, archeology, biology, physics, astronomy, etc. Sociologically speaking, for this reason, the scientific revolution has gradually, surely, but slowly displacing Christianity in the developed western world. Unfortunately, it has some drawbacks. Morality has been tightly tied with Christianity in the west. With that being displaced by cold science, morality has no doubt slipped in the recent centuries in the west - especially since there is no secular or philosophical moral code as there is in the East, say Buddhism or Confucianism for example. Anyways, as to why the Sun is said to revolve around the Earth, its because the Church has always interpreted that when God held the Sun for some hours in the Bible for a battle to be swayed. Do remember that the Church punished Galeleo and many others for believing this to be false. This is in a time period where most other advanced cultures had already figured it out otherwise. What you say is true, some churches "open up to science." However, you must be aware that this is an evolution of changing intepretations of a Bible that is already vague on almost everything like Nostradomus. Fundamentalists are a different group of people who do not believe in evolving the intepretations. What is said is said, and said quite literally to them. They stick to what is traditionally the original interpretations, in otherwords, what the writers of the Bible meant the context of their teachings to be when they actually wrote them and passed on those beliefs in successive generations. So they believe they are in sync with what God really meant because of that. Again, what you view them to be incorrect as not truly Christian, to them you are the same. Its an arbitrary evaluation for both parties. Therefore, you must pardon the scientist comment in me, that this is pretty ridiculous, and allow me to paraphrase Einstein in his comment that Buddhism is the only religion he's seen that is compatible with science and fulfills the moral and spiritual gap that modern science has created in society.)