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Cosmologists Find Truth in Medieval World View
Submitted by Ursula on Fri, 2006/08/11 - 20:00.
Astrology and Astronomy | Modern Society | NPR | Religion and Philosophy | Review
In The View from the Center of the Universe, Joel R. Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams point out the similarities between ancient beliefs about a terracentric universe and recent discoveries about the results of the Big Bang.
The last time Western culture shared a coherent understanding of the universe as a comforting cosmic dwelling place was in the Middle Ages. For a thousand years, Christians, Jews, and Muslims believed that the earth was the immovable center of the universe and all the planets and stars revolved on crystal spheres around it. » 900 reads | go to original article (155)
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