A short animation: the Copernican Revolution

In the 16th century, Nicholai Copernicus proposed a fundamental change to the way we see our place in existence: it is the Sun and not Earth that occupies the physical centre, he said.

The Copernican revolution that followed holds many important lessons for us today about truth, belief, theory and evidence. What lessons does it hold for the idea of god?

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0:00 Ptolemaic astronomy
0:58 Problems with Ptolemy
1:30 Copernican proposal
2:21 Kepler's help
2:56 Applying this to god