Since we are taking opinion polls on scientific questions about the earth, how about another?
Of course it moves, it rotates.
Why not say the stars and the sun and moon revolve daily around the Earth? It sure looks that way to me.
I guess I don't understand the question. The earth spins on it's axis, it orbits the sun,
the solar system very slowly orbits around the center of the galaxy, the Milky Way along with the Andromeda galaxy is part of a binary system contained within a "local group" of galaxies. The universe as a whole is expanding like raisins in a loaf of rising bread. There is no ultimate fixed point of reference.
From Wikipedia: In the general sense, the absolute velocity of any object through space is not a meaningful question according to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, which declares that there is no "preferred" inertial frame of reference in space with which to compare the Galaxy's motion. (Motion must always be specified with respect to another object.)
Is this the catch?
If the earth didn't spin on it's axis east to west and west to east flight times would be the same. They are not.
Is this tongue-in-cheek?
If the earth didn't spin on it's axis east to west and west to east flight times would be the same. They are not.
If you assume that the earth stands still and everything else moves you could work out all the relative movements and do all the predictions but the math would be much more difficult. It greatly simplifies the math to assume that the earth rotates and orbits the sun.