He who longs for absolutes must come to God, and believe that He is and that His Word is the Truth. The ruling relativism in astronomy is a frightful phenomenon that needed more than three centuries to reach maturity. Copernicus made its coming possible when he conceived the created cosmos as an object about which he as a subject independent from it could not only judge on equal footing with its Maker, but even was able to correct a mistake this Maker had failed to put aright. The result was that the theocentric Universe gave way step by step to a homocentric one somewhere in the eternal silence of the infinite spaces that terrified Pascal. Western man, relentlessly driven to accept the consequences of his choice now finally has lost even the last hold on those spaces.
Events have causes.
The modern view, secretly already for centuries undermining the foundations of the Age of Faith with its cathedrals and cloisters, found in Galileo its victorious propagandist. Bulletin of the Tychonian Society of which Mr. van der Kamp is editor. He cannot escape choosing, as his very first, initial, fundamental presupposition, between the super-natural God and Creator ex nihilo of the Bible, or else some form of monistic evolutionism.