Learning humility from science and religion

From the Episcopal Café:

…in essence, both Galileo and Darwin were using science to claim that humankind is not at the center of everything. Our earth is not at the center of God's creation, and our species is not at the center of God's creation.

Isn't this what Lent is supposed to teach us? "Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return," many of us heard on Ash Wednesday. Lent is supposed to remind us of humility. The opposite of humility is hubris, to be so self-obsessed as to think we are at the center of everything.

So good. Both Galileo and Darwin were confronted with a church power structure that took Scripture literally, thereby missing the point: "The earth is the Lord's and all that is in it." Not ours to do with as we wish. Not the property of the power structures that oppress.

If I claim to act by God's will, I think I need to go and learn humility better.