Church men realize that the authors of the Bible were not concerned with giving us a scientific view of hte heavenly bodies.  The church never should have become entangled in any particular view of astronomy...To read and interpret the Bible as a textbook in a particular science leads to conflict and confusion; to interpret it for what it was really intended and for what it is--a great record of religious aspiration and instruction--is both interested and inspired.

-Lowell L. Bennion, Religion and the Pursuit of Truth (pg. 48-49)