In the 21st century, new methods and discoveries are replacing accepted ways of thinking and doing things with striking speed. After the advent of computers in the last century revolutionized global communication, technology has continued its accelerated march forward, developing new products even before we’ve grown comfortably accustomed to the previous ones.
In other areas, and throughout history, however, the transition has not always been so swift. Several hundred years ago, when Copernicus published his astronomical calculations indicating that the sun, and not the earth, was at the center of the universe, a revolution began, but his conclusions hardly met with immediate, universal acceptance.
Mary Baker Eddy’s radical and revolutionary discovery of the unity of God and man sent shock waves throughout the material world, and disbelievers queued up to refute her premise—and to reject it on the basis of dogma and popular belief.
