Galileo had his facts right, but the Church had good intentions. Above and beyond arguments over geocentrism vs. heliocentrism, the Church was (ineptly) defending its vision of earth as a God-centered planet. In a sense, earth and all other celestial bodies have always been, and will always be, deocentric. At the “center” of existence is a unified superconsciousness (allahu ahad) that is eternal (allahu samad), not part of any natural chain of causality (lam yalid wa lam yulad) and incomparable to anything in creation (wa lam yakun lahu kufu’an ahad). (Source: Qur’an, Surat al-Ikhlas.) Science cannot prove the existence of…
FULL ARTICLEA God-Centered Planet
