Copernicus, Rheticus, and Kepler were not claiming that the Bible taught the motion of the earth, but that the motion of the earth was consistent with the Bible’s teaching. We found that interpreting the foundations and pillars of the earth in terms of the stability of the earth is not a compromise position, but a perfectly reasonable understanding of the text that does not undermine the authority of Scripture, even though this interpretation relies on (new) scientific knowledge.
