Heaven and earth were created all together in the same instant,
on October 23rd, 4004 B.C. at nine o'clock in the morning.
-- Dr. John Lightfoot,
Vice-chancellor of Cambridge University
The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that
the heave un, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high
are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except
the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme
velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the
earth were stationary and the heaven in motion....