American Evangelicals' Copernican Revolution on Foreign Policy
Matthew Scott Thursday, 1 December 2005
The sixteenth century Polish scholar Copernicus was smart and humble enough to make a simple but startling scientific claim: the earth is not the center of the universe. His mathematical deductions challenged the prevailing belief that the Sun was merely a luminous body revolving around the earth. Perhaps because Copernicus was among the first to propose this paradigm shift, or perhaps because he did so with little fanfare, he was not ridiculed and persecuted like his successors Galileo and Kepler. Copernicus was ahead of his time. Through sound reasoning he named what the world did not know—and in the process he revolutionized our understanding of the universe.
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