Dr Paul Allen

Nicolaus Copernicus portrait from Town Hall in Thorn/Toruń - 1580) Esperanto: Nikolao Koperniko (Portreto el Toruń - 1580) Polski: Mikołaj Kopernik (portret z Sali Mieszczańskiej w Ratuszu Staromiejskim w Toruniu - 1580 r.) Français : Nicolas Copernic, portrait exposé au musée de Toruń (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) In the sixteenth century, the Renaissance astronomer Nicholas Copernicus challenged the belief that the earth was the center of the universe. Copernicus argued that the sun didn’t revolve around the earth, but rather that the earth revolved around the sun. The Copernican Revolution turned the scientific world upside down by turning the universe inside out. In much the same way, each one of us needs to experience our own Copernican Revolution. The paradigm shift happens when we come to terms with the fact that the world doesn’t revolve around us. But that’s a tough pill to swallow. When we are born into this world, the world revolves around us. We’re spoon-fed on the...

Astronomer Copernicus, conversation with God. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) It's funny that many secularists believe that Christian myths about Jesus evolved over time until they were written down generations later. This is the thesis in Bart Ehrman 's latest book. It's not accurate. It's funny because there are things believed by some of the same secularists that actually are myths that evolved over time to create the impression that Christianity is a science stopper and anti-intellectual. One of these myths is about the scientific revolution that was purportedly initiated by Copernicus and the supposed subsequent opposition from the church to his heliocentric theories. The myth begins with the notion of the "dark ages," a time when the church suppressed education. It's just not true. Scholarship was alive and well prior to Copernicus. In fact, scholars were working on heliocentric theories before Copernicus. He learned these in university and built on...