ned strong. This idea changed man's whole view of his significance and place in the universe. Now, man was no longer the center of everything. Man was not as important as he originally thought. This also meant that the Church was not preaching the truth, and that the Bible and Aristotle were wrong. The Church had to do things in retaliation because this went against everything that the Church had taught and believed in. This raised questions about the validity of the rest of the Bible and Aristotle's teachings. The questions the people had gave doubt to the Church and its teachings.Later came along different and more evolved ideas. The Church held strong in the belief of time as being relatively short. The Church believed that the earth was only a couple of thousand years old. John McPhee’s phase of “deep time” (Gould 2), todally contridicted the Church’s beliefs. This notion that the earth was billions of years old disrupted the Church. To think that the earth was made long before humans and that we were just a spec of history was very disturbing. This gave doubt to the logic that the earth was made by God for humans. This was uneasy for the Church to deal with. To think that man was simply a “millesecond” (Gould 5), was in itself an intimidation of the Church. This suggested that the earth was not made for humans. For the Church to admit that these thoughts were correct and what they were teaching was wrong, was something that the church would never do. This was the main conflict that the Church has fought since these beliefs have been suggested....
