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On this episode of ID the Future<\/strong>, Andrew McDiarmid again hears from science historian Michael Keas about another science myth exploded in Keas\u2019 new ISI book Unbelievable: 7 Myths About the History and Future of Science and Religion<\/a><\/em>. This time it\u2019s the belief that Copernicus\u2019s sun-centered cosmos demoted humans from our privileged position at the center. As another pioneering early astronomer, Galileo, noted, under the old astronomy the center was no privileged place. Instead it was viewed as the bottom of the universe, the \u201csump where the universe’s filth and ephemera collect.\u201d So Copernicus\u2019s discovery, if anything, elevated Earth\u2019s place in the cosmos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid again hears from science historian Michael Keas about another science myth exploded in Keas\u2019 new ISI book Unbelievable: 7 Myths About the History and Future of Science and Religion. This time it\u2019s the belief that Copernicus\u2019s sun-centered cosmos demoted humans from our privileged position at the center. As another pioneering early astronomer, Galileo, noted, under the old astronomy the center was no privileged place. Instead it was viewed as the bottom of the universe, the \u201csump where the universe’s filth and ephemera collect.\u201d So Copernicus\u2019s discovery, if anything, elevated Earth\u2019s place in the cosmos.","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":34351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","sync_status":"","episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"https:\/\/episodes.castos.com\/id\/IDTF-1193-The-Copernican-Demotion-That-Wasnt.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"154252","podmotor_episode_id":"137021","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:16:47","filesize":"11.5 mb","filesize_raw":"12085136","date_recorded":"2019-02-11","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"1193","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"full","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2365,116,1771,1718,1723,1772,1763,1724,1773,1729,1774,1752,1775,1481,1587],"series":[7227],"speaker":[],"class_list":["post-34476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-__edited","tag-aristotle","tag-copernican-revolution","tag-copernicus","tag-galileo","tag-galileo-galilei","tag-geocentrism","tag-heliocentrism","tag-historical-myths","tag-neil-degrasse-tyson","tag-ptolemaic-cosmos","tag-ptolemy","tag-textbook-errors","tag-textbooks","tag-unbelievable","series-intelligent-design-the-future"],"acf":[],"author_names":["Michael Newton Keas"],"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/idthefuture-cover.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-download\/34476\/1193.mp3","player_link":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-player\/34476\/1193.mp3","audio_player":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-player\/34476\/1193.mp3<\/a><\/audio>","episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":[],"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/feed\/podcast\/intelligent-design-the-future","embedCode":"

Unbelievable: The Cosmic Copernican Demotion That Wasn\u2019t<\/a><\/blockquote>