Aristotle’s Philosophy

You said: “These thoughts are just as absurd as Aristotle’s silly concept of the universe.”
I’m sorry, but I cannot follow you here. I am not particularly fond of Aristotle’s philosophy, but to dismiss his cosmology as “silly” is going a bit too far, I think. Aristotle was a brilliant man, a gifted thinker, and a profound philosopher. I personally do not like the use to which he was put by the Roman Church; but as a thinker he is to be given, in my opinion, the utmost respect. His logical categories and meticulous study of the natural world have bequeathed upon us a sense of our intellectual connection with nature that culminated in the gorgeous idylls of Gregory Nazianzen on natural beauty, and the first philosophical defense of animal rights in the work of Maximus the Confessor (long before Peter Singer and, more recently, Matthew Scully took up that noble cause).
I should add that my main philosophical concern is not with logic and the physical sciences, but rather with ethics and inter-personal relations. I am an Existentialist and a Personalist, and I consider — as did Heidegger — technology and the so-called ‘advancement of science’ as detrimental to the authentically human endeavor of attaining Personhood or “likeness to God” — the main goal of Orthodox Christian eschatology, as my doctoral dissertation will address.