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To: MikeH who wrote (4215)10/16/1999 12:38:00 AM
From: nihil  Respond to of 6418
 
In the 1400's every intelligent geographer or scientist believed the world was spherical. Even Aristotle (much earlier) understood that (the shape of the earth's shadow on the moon during an eclipse.) Hellenic scientists ad come close to accurate measurements of the diameter. The main argument in the 14th century was over the diameter. Columbus, fortunately, was wrong and guessed too small. He wasn't an astronomer, just an adventurer and cartographer and seaman. He didn't know where he was going when he set off. He didn't know where he was when he got there. And he didn't know where he had been when he came back.



To: MikeH who wrote (4215)10/17/1999 9:47:00 PM
From: Akula  Respond to of 6418
 
No educated person since the Greeks has thought that the world was flat. Columbus surmised a smaller world than Eristophanes (?) and undertook a stupid voyage. Furthermore, there is no evidence refuting evolution. Thus, in this case, the view of the scientific community can be assumed to be correct by default. The same holds true for the theories of gravity and relativity.


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