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What Is Out There? God, Is That You?
An unknown man from Copernicus’ time asking the important questions
When I first had taken a look at the papers Nicolaus Copernicus was always keeping hidden from the rest of the world—only hushed words for people he confided in, perhaps afraid of how the reaction to a change of astronomical order would be — I was shocked.
What was the balance of life if not the notion that God had put us right where we were supposed to be? Were we not in the middle of everything? Right and center, like we were predestined by the Creator to be seeded in the land rightly chosen for us?
And then… we were not in the center?
We were just moving around the Sun?
And how could it be that something so small in the sky could have that kind of force on us?
How could something we can’t even see have any influence on us?
In my mind, I was starting to wonder if I had ever seen God before, what were the depictions of Him. The Sun I could see, could feel it’s warmth and energy, could see its light during the day, and feel it’s absence at night.
When you stopped to think about it, that was the truth of life: we counted our time because of the Sun. We counted days and nights, a world moved by…
