Unbelievable: The Cosmic Copernican Demotion That Wasn’t

Episode 1193 February 11, 2019 00:16:47
Unbelievable: The Cosmic Copernican Demotion That Wasn’t
Intelligent Design the Future
Unbelievable: The Cosmic Copernican Demotion That Wasn’t

Feb 11 2019 | 00:16:47

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Show Notes

On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid again hears from science historian Michael Keas about another science myth exploded in Keas’ new ISI book Unbelievable: 7 Myths About the History and Future of Science and Religion. This time it’s the belief that Copernicus’s sun-centered cosmos demoted humans from our privileged position at the center. As another pioneering early astronomer, Galileo, noted, under the old astronomy the center was no privileged place. Instead it was viewed as the bottom of the universe, the “sump where the universe's filth and ephemera collect.” So Copernicus’s discovery, if anything, elevated Earth’s place in the cosmos.

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