I think, my question was more concisely attemptingf to detach itself from the Biblical stance, and look at a more physical interpretation of observation.
How can we determine the center of everything via observation?
98cwitr's comment "everything is expanding away from everything" is logically incoherent. Everything, from a singularity standpoint MUST be expanding awa from a single point!
Now, if we are in fact, moving away from a singularity, the measurements
must be determinate! We must be moving away from one point! And if this is so, it must be measurable!
If the original big bang theory was correct, then your thinking would be correct. But that theory had to be discarded and replaced with the weirdest idea than man could imagine. Because only the most outlandish fairy story could match the facts that Science has gathered.
All of space is expanding equally in every direction.
It doesn't support a big bang theory at all so the original band story had to have a sub-plot written into it. After the theoretical "Big - Bang" the cosmos decided there wasn't enough room or time, so it decided to expand equally in all directions. And that what we see. Universal expansion with no center point.
That's also how the cosmos got to be bigger than it is old.
Meaning, the distance from the farthest point we can see, seems to be a larger distance than light could have traveled (
in the amount of time we think has passed.)
Anyway....from our point of view...Earth is the center.
I'm not supposed to say this, but God did it that way
to amaze us. But most just write it off as odd but true.
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] It turns out that every point in the universe sees itself as the center!"
- [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1] Paul Doherty, Exploratorium Teacher Institute
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Exploratorium: Hubble: Where is the center of the Universe?