Didn't scientists used to believe the earth was flat because that's what the evidence suggested? That's what a "rational" scientist would have believed. My point is reason usually fails because it isn't based on exactly what you said it was, EVIDENCE!
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No, see, people believed the world was flat because when you look over the landscape, it appears to be so - that was the best evidence at the time. When new evidence came to light, people changed their minds. The rational scientists of the day collated the evidence and came up with a new theory: the Earth is round. That's what reasonable scientists do.
Um, no. People believed the world was flat for two reasons:
Yeah - the "flat earth" thing comes from the fact that the curvature is too shallow to notice directly.
No, 'scientists' didn't. A couple hundred years before the birth of Jesus, the Greeks not only figured out that Earth was round, but how big it was.
'1,500 years ago, everybody knew that the Earth was the centre of the universe. 500 years ago, everybody knew that the Earth was flat. And 15 minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow . '
-K (Tommy Lee Jones), "MiB"
Ferdinand Magellan , numbnuts.
Even Ferdinand de Bargos knows more than you , and he's a fictional character.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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