TC wrote:
> Once it was known as true that the earth is a disc. Jerusalem was the center 
> of the earth, the sun and the planets were proven to revolve around the 
> earth.

You know, I don't think this is true.  I think the religions pushing this 
stuff always knew they had no idea if they were actually right or not.

Even nowadays, it surprises me (in some sense) that religious people object 
to the teaching of evolution here. You'd think if creationism were *true* 
and they *really* believed it, they wouldn't be worried about *science*.

Why would the church lock up Galileo if they thought his observations and 
deductions were factually incorrect?

 > Look into the old theories of epicycles and hypocycles which were
> used to explain the movements of the planets scientifically. Today we know 
> better.

Epicycles were the String Theory of orbital mechanics. :-)


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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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   much longer being almost empty than almost full.

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