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D B Sweeney
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they are not skeptic enough and tend to accept the given knolage as fact.
How sceptical are you of the theory of gravity?.
There's also a flipside to that coin and that's that 'believers' more often than not accept their reality of UFO's and ghosts without evidence other than stories and dubious YouTube videos.
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D B Sweeney
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Agentscott, true - the first man to claim the earth was not the centre of the universe was nearly executed for such blasphemy
By the Catholic Church.
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D B Sweeney
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They thought the earth was flat...really...was someone that stupid...more like it was a big lie to stop people going to far.
Galileo was called to the Inquisition for subscribing to the Copernican theory of Heliocentricity. The Church had no interest in stopping people going too far since they wanted the 'word of god' spread across the globe. The reason the Church got their knickers in a twist was due to Copernican theory challenging the infallible word of the Bible and thus god himself.
From about 3,000bc the Persians and Babylonians had known that the earth was round.
As far as we can tell very few people ever considered the world to be flat. The very earliest writings always describe the world as a dome or an upturned bowl or as a pile of soil or similar descriptions. So we can assume that people never thought the world was flat. That makes sense since anyone who climbed even a small mountain could see quite clearly that the world curves away on all sides. As a result they assumed it was shaped like a dome, with their location near the top.
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thecactus
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D B Sweeney,
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Agentscott, true - the first man to claim the earth was not the centre of the universe was nearly executed for such blasphemy
By the Catholic Church.
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Did you see this conclusion that the Catholic Church has come to after 2000 years -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7399661.stm
the bibles angels and demons possibly |
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D B Sweeney
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I knew that they have long accepted evolution and the possibility of life on other planets - but this is still the same Catholic Church that believes in god himself, the virgin birth and transubstantiation...oh and demons 
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