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

/

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.

Other Episodes

Episode 0

December 21, 2012 00:10:27
Episode Cover

An Immunologist Explains Why the Immune System Isn't an Example of Darwinian Evolution

On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Donald L. Ewert, a research immunologist/virologist who spent much of his career studying the...

Listen

Episode 1931

July 22, 2024 00:26:26
Episode Cover

Can Darwinian Evolution Be Rescued From Dogma?

If there's anything left to salvage from the Neo-Darwinian theory of life's origins, it must first be rescued from dogma. On this episode of...

Listen

Episode 953

October 19, 2016 00:11:57
Episode Cover

Revolutionary: John West on The Universe Next Door

On this episode of ID the Future, Tom Woodward interviews CSC Senior Fellow John G. West on the radio show, The Universe Next Door....

Listen