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Considering that, in the end, the Earth does go around the Sun, there are some fascinating lessons to be derived from all this.
In particular - yes, the Gods may have a different notion of simplicity, as 'twere, but unless you can exhibit that alternative notion of simplicity, it seems we should still penalize hypotheses that sure look complicated.
And the Sun does go around the Earth.
Of course, most of the observation that led to people thinking that the Sun goes around the Earth in the first place was based on the Earth's rotation on its axis, so that's a whole different issue.