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Why not? The Earth is the center of the Universe, and Man the foremost thing on Earth. The language of the Bible is that the Sun, Moon, and Stars revolve around a stationary Earth. Thus, Sun stops in its tranist across the sky for Joshua

The Man is the pinnacle of creation. As far as I know, nowhere in the Bible, does it say that Earth is the center of the Universe. Earth may be the focal point but, certainly, not a center in any geometric sense.

However, if you are talking about human perception, it does appear the Sun, Moon, stars, planets, galaxies do revolve around planet Earth. I just think that it is presumptuous for us to assume that our perception is equivalent to that of the Lord.

Either we are a bunch of electrons descended from a monkey, or we are God's pinnacle of creation.

We certainly are a bunch of electrons (as well as other particles). The Bible does say that we were made of clay. So, on some level, we do resemble monkeys - as well as all other living organisms. The Bible does mention, however, that we (not the monkeys) were made in Lord's image. Clearly it does not mean that we are physically made in the Lord's image. Traditionally the part of Man that was believed to be "made in Lord's image" was the soul. If you prefer, we can call it reason. It is, however, indisputable that, at a certain level, we are significantly different from monkeys.