Catholic Website Challenge: Prove the Earth Revolves Around the Sun!

This leaves me speechless. Catholic Apologetics Internations (no I have no idea who these people are or their "official" relation to the Catholic Church - their website is less than enlightening on that point) is betting $1000 that no one can "prove" this, thus showing that the Bible is right when it allegedly states a geocentric theory of the universe. Their listing of verses which "prove" the Bible teaches this are highly dubious (I admit I did not read the ones from the apocrypha).

There are of course two problems with this challenge. (1) Relativity showed us that technically you can say any point in the universe is stationary, and the math works out for the motions of other bodies relative to it. Mathematically, it is equally valid to say you died because the car hit you at 200 MPH or you hit the car at 200 MPH. (2) The reason why scientists accepted the heliocentric theory of the universe was a well-known tool of logic called "Ockam's Razor", which can be paraphrased as "the simplest explanation is usually the right one." The geocentric theory only jives with the observed motions of the planets when you invent things like epicycles (i.e. planets backing up in their own orbits) or posit some kind of lensing which fools the eye (and satellites outside the atmosphere). There is no reason why epicycles or lensing could not exist, but it is much simpler to simply posit the sun as the center of the universe.

This is silly, but I have no doubt it will get a lot of play from anti-religious cycnics. I believe scripture is true and inerrant in its original writings. That does not mean that I do not think it uses some figurative language here and there ("He's as fat as a cow!" does not imply direct equivilence in weight between human and bovine), or that in some places plain speech is intended to imply celestial facts (I say "The sun rises in the east" even though I believe it is the Earth turning that causes the appearance of a rising sun). Sigh. Josh McDowell once said, "Never demand of scripture, anything you would not demand of yourself in everyday speech."