That point wasn't whether or not you could explain it or believe it; obviously everyone knows the earth revolves around the sun. The point is that somewhere deep in our brains the sun moving around the earth is fundamental. The fact that our language implicates movement of the sun might just be the cause.
I don't think our brains have built in even the concept of the Earth having any around for the Sun to move.
Many religions have concept of sun being born at dawn, travel through the sky and die at dusk and stay dead through the night.
Our brains surely have the idea that Earth is flat built in. But I don't think that anyone has to suppress that ingrained theory when answering "is the Earth round or flat?"
This is because we all as children, when we were for the first time curious what shape the world has, were told that it's round and were shown pictures. That's first sensible theory we got and that's the one we internalized.
> But I don't think that anyone has to suppress that ingrained theory when answering "is the Earth round or flat?"
That's an unfounded assumption; perhaps we pause at that question as much as we pause about questions about the movement of the sun. Certainly the character of the question is the same.
