The Importance Of Geocentrism

From the beginning of the human race, since man first stepped into the world from beneath the depths of the mighty sea; the jungles of Africa; or from God himself, humans have been presented as the dominant species. Humanity assumes the stature of alpha predator, master of all of God’s creations, and the center of the universe solely from being born on Earth. The misconception of mankind’s importance in the universe has resulted in a species-wide ethnocentrism revolving around the theories of early chauvinist. These theories stem from mankind’s own arrogance, and have distorted its reality as to where its importance lies in the universe. The human races’s ego has developed into an exceedingly destructive problem towards itself, and will continue

Even today, there is a large community of humans who still believe in the early concepts of geocentrism, the belief that Earth resides at the center of the universe. One of the most well known supporters is Dr. Robert Sungenis, whose works include books entitled, Galileo Was Wrong and Geocentrism. He is also the president of Catholic Apologetics International, a non-profit organization dedicated to the printing of public works in support of geocentric beliefs. During a debate between Dr. Sungenis and Dr. Hugh Ross, a supporter of a similar form of geocentrism, Dr. Sungenis stated, “This [the probability of life in other galaxies] gets back to the Copernicus principle. You see, if Earth is special and it takes so much fine tuning to create life as we see it today, the odds of that happening on some other planet or out in the remote recesses of space is just practically nil” (“Up”). Dr. Sungenis and his followers favor the ideal that the Earth resides at the center of the universe, and was placed there in correspondence to a pattern dictated by an almighty being. They deny the Copernicus principle, which states that Earth wasn’t planned, and that it and its inhabitants

Carl Sagan, a distinguished astronomer and author, goes on to explain humanity’s accidental birth in his book A Vision of the Human Future in Space: Pale Blue Dot, “…if the laws of Nature and the physical constants—such as the speed of light, the electrical charge of the electrons, the Newtonian gravitational constant, or Planck’s quantum mechanical constant—had been different, the course of events leading to the origin of humans would never have transpired” (30). The very lives of an entire civilization result from a fortunate collision of celestial bodies that could have never occurred under differing circumstances! The human race is not blessed with a position of relative importance! They are filled to the brim with the ideals of chauvinists who claim that since humans dominate the Earth, they also dominate the universe as the only intelligent lifeforms. These very same ideals are the ones that lead one section of the Earth’s population to directly harm a another seeming indistinguishable section of Earth’s population (Sagan 6). The conquest for power has stemmed directly from the arrogance of the human race and its position relative to others. Mankind is fighting a war amongst its people, one that not only harms those who wish to instill harm on others, but towards innocent men, women, and children. These altercations are not winning the hearts of the people, but are in fact striking hatred and fear into them; which spills over to other