On the effect of Copernican Science:

The natural, mythopoeic state of early humanity, manifest itself through a process of sentient apprehension of patterns that would necessarily have derived great satisfaction from the constancy afforded by ritualized and habitual mimicry of utterances and, through such activities, would have forged the basis for symbolic communication that conferred upon it great collective advantage in its address to its environment. This proclivity for recognizable patterns would have mirrored itself in the greater sphere of existence—in the constant diurnal and nocturnal rhythms of the sun and the moon and the relative fixity of the stars. This predictability would have the effect of mitigating the impact of dealing with a local-level reality that was in constant flux. An intense affiliation with these predictable and stable entities would be a natural consequence and would affirm humanity’s wholly embodied relation to the cosmos. That these phenomena were taken up as symbols of the divine in early societies is hardly surprising.
Copernicus’ postulation of a helio-centric model of the cosmos had the effect of rendering that intense relationship null and void. The God’s were literally cast from the heavens and our connection to them severed. We emerged, squinting into the garish light of a new, scientific dawn, adjusting our focus to the new landscape.