Originally Posted by
rodsky
I'll tackle your second paragraph first. First off, I was asking members of the Christian and Catholic churches--in your paragraph you never mentioned anything about faith.
Now back to your first statement. It is a well-established fact that the wide acceptance of Copernican Heliocentrism after Copernicus' time paved the way for the emergence of new ideas in science and technology. Carl Sagan even uses the statement "the Heliocentric idea is directly responsible for modern civilization" in the Cosmos series. Basically it's like a tree with branches, in that the main trunk are Copernican/Galilean ideas, and the main branches include Kepler, Newton, et al, and the smaller branches correspond to other ideas that are now part of modern scientific thought. Now this tree wouldn't have grown the way it did, if you cut the trunk (i.e. Copernicus wasn't born). So funny it may be to you, my initial proposition is still sound when viewed in that manner. Do you see it now?
-RODION
interesting scenario...i'd still like to think somebody would fill in copernicus's shoes if that's the case. maybe not then...maybe later.
that scenario is pointing another dark age...eventually and hopefully a renaissance would suffice.
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