Opinion: Evangelicals who reject heliocentrism?

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Part one of my two-part post “Copernicus, Interrupted” is up at Biologos.org. In this post I compare the similarities between seventeenth- and eighteenth-century evangelical resistance to Copernican heliocentrism to that of evangelical resistance to evolution today. The similarities are very interesting.

Copernicus’s basic conclusion may be accepted today, but it was a long time in coming. Resistance to Copernicus among Christians, particularly evangelicals, appears to have continued well into the 18th century, a good two-hundred years since the publication of his work on heliocentrism. This resistance comes from at least three theological conclusions. Read all of part 1 at Biologos…