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All of this would have been unrecognizable to Copernicus. His model was readily accepted to the extent that it agreed with observation, and abandoned when better models came along later. He didn't challenge any moral theory, and he got [[Catholic Church]] approval for his book. Not everyone views the history of science as the story of how Man became insignificant.

All of this would have been unrecognizable to Copernicus. His model was readily accepted to the extent that it agreed with observation, and abandoned when better models came along later. He didn't challenge any moral theory, and he got [[Catholic Church]] approval for his book. Not everyone views the history of science as the story of how Man became insignificant.

The Copernican Principle is incompatible with two of the leading creationist [[cosmological]] theories, Russell Humphreys’ [[White Hole Cosmology]] and Moshe Carmeli's [[Cosmological Relativity]]. <ref>http://creationwiki.org/White_hole_cosmology</ref><ref>http://creationwiki.org/Cosmological_relativity</ref>  These cosmological models assume a privileged position of the earth in the universe, placing it at the center.  They can be argued to be a new form of a [[geocentric]] view of the universe.

The Copernican Principle is incompatible with two of the leading creationist [[cosmological]] theories, Russell Humphreys’ [[White Hole Cosmology]] and [[Moshe Carmeli]]'s [[Cosmological Relativity]]. <ref>http://creationwiki.org/White_hole_cosmology</ref><ref>http://creationwiki.org/Cosmological_relativity</ref>  These cosmological models assume a privileged position of the earth in the universe, placing it at the center.  They can be argued to be a new form of a [[geocentric]] view of the universe.

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