The interpretation of the Bible with respect to the geocentric theory of the world and the heliocentric theory varies much like the way rice is made with either chicken of beef bouillon.

If you will, allow dry rice to represent the Bible – just the words, all 66 books. The rice is neither white or long-grain, for that does not matter so much as the fact that it IS rice. The boiling water represents human intellect.

Without specific understanding of the Earth’s place in the cosmos, the rice will either be perfect, underdone or overdone. That is determined by the teachings or cooking methods handed down to the respective boiling water.

The difference between the rice is tested by how it is flavored during the cooking process. The Geocentric theory is represented by beef bouillon. The heliocentric theory is represented by chicken bouillon. By placing one or the other into the process of making rice one varies how delectable the rice is.

The two bowls of rice are, upon completion, not similar. The are not side dishes for the same main meals.

As it tuns out, for modern man the chicken flavor is perfect for all dishes served at the evolving and tasty table.

Beef flavor is old fashioned and irresponsible.

It has been argued that the Bible may be understood analogously via the exercise of cooking rice. While this may be true, to some extent, I feel that there is a far more apt analogy with which to understand biblical interpretation. The Bible is like a shoe that we've been wearing on our heads for so many centuries.

Preposterous, you say. Balderdash to you, I say. Let me explain. Let us assume that the Bible- or "the Word of God"- may be represented by a shoe. About two thousand years ago this shoe was found lying in the middle of the road by a guy named Paul who just fell off of his horse. He examined this shoe and did not recognize what it was, possibly since everybody at that time wore sandals or because he had just fallen off of a horse and hit his head. In either case he picked up this shoe and proudly put it on his head. Paul then toured the world showing people his new hat and convincing a vast population that they too should be wearing such a fetching hat.

Well, over the centuries this shoe on our heads became accepted as a hat- for all intents and purposes it was a hat, seeing as nobody really seemed to disagree. But then science came along.

With the rise of modern scientific thinking, as well as renaissance pursuits like openly expressive art and music, came an opening of the mind. Western man began thinking for himself. Pure science- science without precepts handed down by the church- gave man the ability to see things in new ways. The most fundamental example of this is the Galaean Revolution- or more specifically the "fight for our hearts and minds" between geocentricism and heliocentricsm.

Geocentricism is the "scientific" theory that states that the Earth is at the center of the solar system (and also the whole universe)- usually because "the bible said so." Heliocentricism is the theory that the sun is at the center of this solar system. This theory was derived by removing all preconceived notions of the movements of the solar system and then applying logical deduction and examination to the problem. The basic tenet of this argument is that the simplest explanation is most likely the most accurate. This is a basic scientific principle know as "Occom's razor," and is also the underlying principle of most of science, and explicitly the Principle of Least Resistance which appears much later when considering electromagnetism.

Now, it must be understood that this new way of looking our place in the universe in no way discounts the existence of God. To see a more clear illumination of this let us turn to Kepler. Kepler says that the more simpler explanation is most likely to be correct, and that such simple elegance is obviously God’s handiwork. Or something like that.

So one can see that it is possible to both have the sun at the center, and allow for a God. Even the Christian God. But then we have all the fundamentalist geocentrist nut-jobs who disagree with this argument because "it's not in the Bible". Well I say that the Bible is a shoe that they are wearing on their heads. Their closed mind prevents them from more openly examining this shoe and seeing that it might just be a shoe.