I hate to argue but the Copernican theory had nothing to do with undermining the authority of God and the Bible.
That is simply YOUR personal opinion has I for one can not agree.
Copernicus was a devout Christian and in the 16th century, was the simply the first to explain the observed looping (retrograde) motion of planets, by replacing a geocentric heliocentric model of the Universe with a heliocentric model.
Galileo, also a devout Christian contributed to the development of astronomy by teaching the Copernican view, and by devising a telescope which he used to show Jupiter’s moons as a model for the solar system, among other things.
Newton was also a devout Christian who wrote about Biblical prophecy, especially Daniel and the Revelation, the most, particularly the book of Daniel and the book of Revelation. He built on earlier insights with his universal law of gravitation and its fruits: predictions or explanations of Kepler’s laws, the motion of comets, the shape of the Earth, tides, precession of the equinoxes and perturbations in the motion of planets which led to the discovery of Neptune. He also had to invent the mathematics to do this: calculus.
All of these really smart men have now been proven by modern science, satellites, and observations from airplanes and other sources to be 100% correct.
