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harrylin said:I would agree with saying that the Earth is actually rotating, if that is what you mean. The main reason is simple: we would have to arbitrarily assign enormous velocities (as well as very low ones) to distant star light, as well as other weird effects; a simpler set of laws of nature makes much more sense to me.
We don't even have to look that far. How would we explain the Foucault pendulum or the Coriolis effect if the Earth weren't rotating?