I appreciate you standing up for me, but your understanding is mistaken.
Earth isn’t the center of the universe.
At its simplest: Earth is the center of Life as we know it!
Earth’s processes created our bodies over the course of evolutionary time.
And it blossoms out from that fundamental realization.
This is a couple years old
The term “Earth Centrism” was literally born out of writing the following essay. Since then > I’ve spend more time absorbing the concept and fleshing out its implications.
SEPTEMBER 1, 2018
Missing Key to Stephen Gould’s “Nonoverlapping Magisteria”
… In the years since I’ve kept learning more about Earth’s amazing evolution and geophysics and also the scientific process itself. A process that’s basically a set of rules for gathering and assessing our observations in as honest, open and disciplined manner possible, in a language that all who understand science can trust.
Recently it occurred to me that what Stephen Gould was missing was a much more fundamental divide that is crying out for recognition.
Specifically, the Magisteria of Physical Reality vs the Magisteria of our Human Mindscape.
In this perspective we acknowledge that Earth and her physical processes and the pageant of evolution are the fundamental timeless touchstones of our reality.
Part of Earth’s physical reality is that we humans were created by Earth out of her processes.
Science shows us that we belong to the mammalian branch of Earth’s animal kingdom. Yet, it’s undeniable that something quite unique happened about six million years ago when certain apes took a wild improbable evolutionary turn. …
As a matter of fact, Geocentrism is the opposite of Earth Centrism, in that Geocentrism is purely a mental construct whereas Earth Centrism is simply acknowledging the central role Earth and Evolution had in creating us.
Do you deny that “Earth provides the fundamental touchstone of physical reality for humans”?
Earth Centrism says nothing about Earth’s origins, or being born out of star dust, or the cosmic circumstance that makes Earth possible! It doesn’t need to because it’s not about that. It’s about our human perceptions.
It certainly doesn’t say Earth is the center of the universe.
It says Earth is the center of human existence.