Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Friday, October 2, 2015
COSMOLOGY
Our cosmology used to declare that our planet, Earth, was the center of the Universe, when our formative holy books were written, i.e. the Bible and the Quran, in the "Ptolemaic" era, when Aristotlelean logic still held sway. Then along came Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, all inquiring priests, who blew that cosmology away, at great personal risk. They showed that, au contraire, the Earth, and by extension, mankind, was not the center of the Universe; that the sun and stars, did not revolve around him; but, he around them. In light of their science, we yet exist, with the same holy books of old's dated cosmology.