For I see Thy heavens, a work of Thy fingers, Moon and stars that Thou didst establish. What [is] man that Thou rememberest him? The son of man that Thou inspectest him? -- Psalm 8:4-5 (YLT)
The problem, it appears to me, is that we are hung up on the goal of propounding a "Universal Truth." Human beings do not have the capacity to grasp Universal Truth; if there were such a thing, we would have no need for faith. The wonder and expanse of the heavens reveal a God far larger than anyone's capacity to grasp the way God holds "it all" together. We are each like the blind men and the elephant - each of us seeing only the (microscopically tiny) slice of "reality" that we can touch -- that the rest of the elephant is there is an act of faith. What Copernicus and Kepler, et al did, and science does daily, is reveal how artificially (and vehemently) attached we can be to supposed truths and unimportant details of a limited physical existence. This is in stark contrast to faith, which stretches out beyond the heavens, beyond science, beyond this mortal life to utterly and entirely embrace the God of Love. "What is man that Thou are mindful?" Mindful enough for Jesus Christ to come opening The Way to Truth and Life.
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