"Ptolemy placed Earth at the center. Copernicus moved the center to the sun. Einstein's Cosmological Principle removed the center entirely - a mathematical necessity that became the foundation of every standard model that followed," writes David Neufer. "The Urantia Papers disclose a cosmos with a center: Paradise, stationary, absolute, the geographic origin of all force-energy in the material creation."

This image of the COSMOS Legacy Field captured by Webb's NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) highlights the galaxy MoM-z14, with compass arrows and colour key for reference. MoM-z14 is currently the farthest galaxy Webb has detected, estimated to have fully formed when the universe was only 280 million years old.

"The Cosmological Principle is the assumption that the universe, viewed at sufficiently large scales, is homogeneous (the same everywhere) and isotropic (the same in every direction). No location is special. No direction is preferred. There is no center.

"Einstein adopted this assumption in 1917 as a mathematical simplification. His field equations of General Relativity are extremely difficult to solve for an entire universe. The Cosmological Principle made them solvable, allowing Einstein, Friedmann, Lemaitre, Robertson, and Walker to reduce the full complexity of the field equations to a single metric - the FLRW metric - describing a uniformly expanding or contracting space. The assumption was not a measurement [emphasis added]. It was adopted because without it, the mathematics did not yield a tractable solution. Einstein himself introduced the cosmological constant L in the same 1917 paper, attempting to force a static universe from equations that naturally predicted a dynamic one - a decision he later called his greatest blunder.

"From it, a derivation chain follows: the FLRW metric yields the Friedmann equations; the Friedmann equations produce the Hubble parameter H0; from H0 every other derived quantity follows - co-moving distances, lookback times, the 13.8-billion-year age of the universe, and the density parameters that divide the total energy budget, hypothetically, into approximately 5% ordinary matter, 27% dark matter, and 68% dark energy.

"Observations of Type Ia supernovae in the late 1990s established that the expansion of the universe is accelerating - increasing in speed rather than slowing under gravity as standard models had predicted. Within the FLRW framework this acceleration requires a repulsive energy component. The standard model names it dark energy, assigns it approximately 68% of the total energy budget, and has not detected it. Together with dark matter, the two undetected components account for approximately 95% of the universe's total energy content in the standard model - leaving roughly 5% for the matter that instruments have actually measured [emphasis added].

"What the Papers disclose in its place is structural. The semiquiet zones between space levels are permanent features of enormous scale. 'Such an arrangement exerts antigravity influence and acts as a brake upon otherwise dangerous velocities.' (UB 11:7.9) The standard model requires a repulsive energy because it has no architectural category for large-scale antigravity. The disclosed architecture names exactly this category as a feature of the spatial structure - not a postulated energy with no laboratory analog, but a disclosed property of the boundaries between organized space levels."

Not only does the Urantia Book account for the absence of "dark matter/energy," but also Hubble tension anomalies, accelerating expansion, cosmic microwave background anomalies, and the problem of extremely distant mature galaxies, which according to the standard model should not exist.

"Neufer's Ptolemaic analogy is spot on, because for hundreds of years, astronomers, had to keep adding wheels around the earth to account for the observed movements of planets and stars, said Urantia Corps for Spiritual Progress (UCSP) founder, Rebecca Bynum. "The mathematics worked; its predictions were accurate, but its primary assumption that the earth was the center of the cosmos was completely wrong."

"We are living through a time when many of the old, seemingly solid assumptions of the past are dying and a new, expanded reality is beginning to come into view," added UCSP founding member, Cheryl Philllips. "We live in a structured universe, even the very cells in our bodies are unbelievably complex. Scientific evidence increasingly points to an over-arching intelligent creator, and over time the Urantia Book's account of creation and the structure of reality conform ever more closely with scientific observations."

Geoffrey L. Taylor has compiled a list of 31 different scientific discoveries anticipated by the Urantia Book. For more information visit the Urantia Fellowship or the Urantia Foundation.

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