Pale Blue Dot

The Scientific Revolution's cosmological paradigm shift is not just exchanging geocentric for heliocentric, it is fundamentally changing how humans perceive themselves - how we see ourselves.

In the geocentric model we are the center and the focus.

In the heliocentric model the universe becomes exponentially large. And we are but a pale blue dot.

Carl Sagan, one of the most famous modern astronomers and science popularizer, said of this:

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar", every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."

If he is correct, what does this say about us? What are the implications?

Are we something? Are we nothing?

How should we think about this from a Christian perspective?