What does the conceptual framework of modern science have to offer us? Part II of II
by
Daniel J. Shepard
on Mon 27 Feb 2006 01:00 AM EST
What does the conceptual framework of modern science have to offer us?
Part II of II
...The sun was now assumed to be the center. But science was not going to stop there.
Science would proceed to move the center of the universe even further from earth.
As time progressed, science learned our sun was far from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Science would teach us our sun was only one of the millions upon millions of stars making up this galaxy.
Our galaxy would then lose its proximity to the center of the universe as we discovered the existence of millions upon millions of other galaxies, all similar to our own.
Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, science was expanding our universe and with it, expanding our understanding of the size of the Causative Force.
Modern science was offering each of us humility.
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Humility is the state of being humble, not proud.
It was the Christians that believe people “are to live with a whole-heartedness which excludes pride of any kind.”
Even so, it was to be the Christians that were to have the greatest difficulty accepting the idea that “man” was not the center of creation.
Even today, we have not let go of the idea that we are, somehow, the center.
We will not let go of being the center until we understand our significance is not tied to being the center of
