One of the main reasons why the ideas of Copernicus were not initially accepted was because Copernicus did not believe the planetary system to have been created by God. This went against the ideas of the Catholic Church, which stated that God was responsible for all creation. Even if it was argued that God had created this system (a more perfect one that was previously believed to be possible), this new system placed the sun, and not the Earth, at the centre of the universe. This implied that humans were not the most important thing in the universe, and that God had not created the whole system only for human benefit, which also contradicted the dominant ideas of the time.
