Actually, in each case our planet, our star, and our galaxy occupy a very special location. If you read “Privileged Planet” you will find that our location is “exquisitely fit not only to support life, but also to give us the best view of the universe, as if Earth were designed both for life and for scientific discovery.” Both of these scientific observations square perfectly with the Bible.
As for your second claim, that Hawkings et al are empirically justified in creating a Big Bang cosmology that assumes the universe has no edge and no center, I beg to differ. They themselves admit that this principle IS NOT warranted by empirical observation, and is rather inserted into Big Bang cosmology to comport with their “ideology.” Indeed, Hawking and Ellis even admit that the fact that our universe appears isotropic, or spherically symmetric, would ordinarily mean "we are located near a very special point." Which begs the question, what empirical justification do Hawkings et al rely upon to supplant the "ordinary," most straight forward interpretation of the data with an extraordinary, non-straightforward interpretation of the same? The answer is, there is no empirical justification. Hawkings et al admit they fed the (badly misnamed) Copernican principle into their mathematics without any empirical justification whatsoever. Why did they do it? According to them, to make our planet, solar system, and galaxy appear “ordinary” and “less special.”
What do you suppose is motivating such a flagrantly unscientific approach, Allmendream???
The homogeneous nature of the universe around us neither supports or precludes that our location is central or that there is no center.