The most conservative wing of modern creationism. The Tychonian Society supports Geocentrism, the belief that Earth is stationary and that the sun revolves around it. Such a position is a logical extension of a very literal reading of such biblical stories as that of Joshua making the sun stand still. Members of the society argue that astronomical data, properly interpreted, support their position. The society was founded in the 1980s by Gerardus Bouw, an instructor at Baldwin-Wallace College, and named for Tycho Brache, the 16th-century astronomer who insisted that the sun revolved around Earth. It is a relatively small organization whose opinions are felt by many to hold the creationist movement up to ridicule.