Technically speaking. An astronomer will tell you that there is no center of the universe. Or rather that every point is the center of the universe. Everything is moving away from everything else, sort of like dots drawn on a baloon that is expanding. Although this may seem as counter-intuitive it is what science has revealed.

What a ridiculous, elitist, arrogant post Aclumsden. If only we were all as educated and intelligent as you fancy yourself to be.

It is easy in our human nature to believe that we are the center of the universe.

A newborn infant must learn through experimentation and sensation that he is a part of the world, not the entirety. Any parent can attest that as children mature, they must be helped to understand that the universe does not revolve around them and their needs and desires.

Even as adults, we often struggle to see the world from a perspective other than our own.

Likewise, it was natural for ancient peoples to … [Más]

This is rather like those ultra-conservatives who, lacking the intelligence and education to know any better, plough through old Church encyclicals of centries ago, and challenge the Church's teachings today because such-and-such an encyclical teaches to the contrary. In so doing, they proclaim that the Second Oecumenical Council of the Vatican is wrong and heretical (and all the rest of it!).

But then like the poor, we shall always have the fools among us! One just has to be patient and kind, … [Más]