Cultural viewpoint

Cultural viewpoint

Unlike the rest of the planets in the Solar System, humankind did not begin to view the Earth as a moving object in orbit around the Sun until the 16th century. Earth has often been personified as a in particular a In many cultures the is also portrayed as a in many religions recall a story involving the creation of the Earth by a supernatural deity or deities. A variety of religious groups, often associated with branches of or assert that their of these creation myths in are and should be considered alongside or replace conventional scientific accounts of the formation of the Earth and the origin and development of life. Such assertions are opposed by the and by other religious groups. A prominent example is the
In the past there were varying levels of belief in a but this was displaced by the concept of a due to observation and circumnavigation. The human perspective regarding the Earth has changed following the advent of spaceflight, and the biosphere is now widely viewed from a globally integrated perspective. This is reflected in a growing that is concerned about humankind's effects on the plan
The name "Earth" derives from t word erda, which means ground or soil, and is related to the word erde. It became eorthe later, and then erthe in The standard astronomical symbol of the Earth consists of a cross circumscribed by a circle.