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Did scientific thought hold that the earth was the center of the universe and therefore religion ruled all?
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∙ 13y ago
No.
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In the early 1500's Copernicus solved the astrophysical problem of how the solar system moved. scientists couldn't explain this mathematically using the adopted idea the the earth was the center of the universe (geocentricity) because the planets moved across the sky in apparently random ways (which is actually the origin of the word "Planet"), so Copernicus based his model on the idea that the sun was the center of the universe (Heliocentricity) and it worked! The church however refuted his idea because the earth had to be the center of the universe because The Bible said it was so.
No, the Bible does not say so, only that God created the universe, and that you can ask him about the details thereof through prayer. Moreover, information received in prayer should confirm scientific inquiry.
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Why is the Hebrew view of the universe not necessarily scientific truth?
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Becuase every one thought that the earth was the center of the universe (religion) and he tried to prove them wrong but they were to powerful with their numbers
Why did people think the earth was the centre of the universe?
... because they thought they were the most important in the universe and the only things in the universe so they thought they were in they centre.
What step in the scientific method did ancients Greeks consider beneath them?
Experimentation. They thought it was too hard work, therefore beneath them.
What did Brahe discover about the universe?
he thought that the earth was the center of the universe
In what religion does Ptah belong?
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How did Aristotle and Ptolemy influence modern scientific thought?
By creating and building on the geocentric model and the scientific method, they influenced modern scientific thought.
What did people long ago think about the universe?
They thought the universe was a great creation by God.
Did thought create the universe?
It is unknown, but it is thought that it came from a singularity (check wikipedia).
What were the early ideas of the solar system and who thought of them?
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How did Hubble's discovery that the universe is currently expanding change scientific thought about the size of the universe in the past?
Expansion, run in reverse, is contraction. The universe gets larger as it moves into the future, and smaller as we examine its past. If we go back to the time when the expansion originally began, which was the Big Bang, the universe was very small, perhaps only the size of a proton, or even a singularity of zero volume.
How did Hubble' s discovery that the universe is currently expanding change scientific thought about the size of the universe in the past?
Expansion, run in reverse, is contraction. The universe gets larger as it moves into the future, and smaller as we examine its past. If we go back to the time when the expansion originally began, which was the Big Bang, the universe was very small, perhaps only the size of a proton, or even a singularity of zero volume.
