What might be the purpose of distorting our true cosmology, and replacing it with a false one? It is worthwhile to read this quote from a magazine called "Lucifer" from the 1800s, bragging about how they believed scientific theories had undermined Biblical teaching, once and for all "We date from the first of January, 1601. This era is called the Era of Man (E.M.) to distinguish it from the theological epoch that preceded it. In that epoch the Earth was supposed to be flat, the Sun was its attendant light, revolving about it. Above was Heaven, where God ruled supreme over all potentates and powers; below was the kingdom of the dead, hell. So taught the Bible. Then came the new Astronomy. It demonstrated that the Earth is a globe revolving about the Sun, that there is no ‘up and down’ in space. Vanished the old Heaven, vanished the old Hell; the Earth became the home of man. And when the modern Cosmogony came, the Bible and the Church, as infallible oracles, had to go, for they had taught that regarding the universe which was shown to be untrue in every particular.” Lucifer, Dec. 23rd, E. M. 287 (1887)."