The dominant view at the moment is that not only can we look into the
past directly but also see the entire evolutionary history of the
Universe and that requires a person suspend their own appreciation of
the continuity between past,present and future as people experience
these things in their own lives,that of our race,our planet and the
Universe itself.

Gentleness has its own authority which the crude mistake for
humility,for a person can be gentle out of authority and can display
humility when appropriate but the Christian Way does not ask its
followers to bow down to rudeness and pretension but to counter it
with the positive things in existence.The life of an astronomer is the
most encompassing in all science for all existence depends on the
great cycles of the Earth and an appreciation of them so when a group
of people exist that can't interpret that the Earth turns once in a
day and 1461 times in 1461 days,the study of the Earth in all its
facets collapses and I would like to believe that people are better
than this contemptible offshoot of the Ra/Dec framework and late 17th
century reasoning such as 'big bang'.

There is much hope,even though the issues are quite precise and
intricate,they can be handled in a broad way without being casual even
allowing for my poor descriptions sometimes,at least those restricted
to spelling and all the other things which happens when not reviewing
a response before posting.There is no way to exclude the new
explanation for the seasons using an additional orbital component for
any great length of time as all it takes is a brief detour to explain
the polar daylight/darkness cycle with direct observational support
via Uranus,that a community has chosen to ignore it for so long
already can be dismaying but that is about it.

Again,gentleness is not a weakness and no astronomer who recognizes
the value of another's work ever sought to diminish the person who
accomplished something no matter how small or great.There is an
intense satisfaction to astronomy at an interpretative level in such a
way that the historical boundaries disappear when encountering what
Copernicus,Kepler and even Galileo actually did so it is not a matter
of whether they were right or not right, for as long as man may live
there are always modifications and new pictures to arrange, but the
sense of being encompassed in the great affairs of humanity rather
than trying to project some sort of superiority.