"Of course I believe that everything makes nice little elliptical orbits around the sun for the most part, but as far as relativity goes, it is perfectly legitimate to believe that the earth is the centre of the universe."
Indeed...I would argue that the world is the habitat of man, and man being the measure of all things - that the world is the centre, symbolically. Our fathers spoke of the symbols of the universe, not ephemeral physic, which changes from day to day... and becomes disagreeable from decade to decade. Modernists are obsessed with the changing, improving universe, and evolution serves this egoism. Pragmatism is rational but it is cut down eventually and hence man looses vision of the eternal. Tradition simply wants us, as humans, to realise that the universe has purpose and existence is meaningful. This is our solace, living in a changing imperfect state.
