<span>"Shouting fire in a crowded theater"</span><span> is a popular </span>metaphor<span> for speech or actions made for the principal purpose of creating unnecessary panic. The phrase is a paraphrasing of </span>Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.<span>'s </span>opinion<span> in the </span>United States Supreme Court<span> case </span>Schenck v. United States<span> in 1919, which held that the defendant's speech in opposition to the </span>draft<span> during </span>World War I<span> was not protected </span>free speech<span> under the </span>First Amendment<span> of the </span>United States Constitution<span>.</span>
The Geocentric theory or model proposed that the Earth was the center of the universe and the Sun rotated around it. Religion played a big role throughout history in trying to perpetuate this scientifically erroneous idea, which started appearing as a biblical perspective pointing towards specific passages in the holy book. A classic one would be Psalms 93:1, in which Earth is described as a static place "established, firm and secured". The church's support of geocentrism can be traced back to literal intepretations of the bible and a refusal to lose credibility and power as science proved them wrong.
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