This is a very worthwhile book to read if you have an open mind (the cover and edition have likely changed since this picture). Once you see the history of how the big bang theory developed, you will understand that it and all the complications in cosmology were introduced to maintain the Copernican principle at all costs. See this chart for a very brief and partial illustration.
For the theologically minded, there is a volume II also.
This is a hard one to wrap my brain around. The earth as center of the universe? Wow.
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. -Benjamin Franklin Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. -Charles Spurgeon