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Facts, Opinions, and S.P.A.M.
Mo:
--- Quote ---What facts? I have seen very few facts anywhere in this topic.
And facts are often false.
Yeah, the world is flat. Uh-huh.
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The world being flat was never a fact as it was never proven to be true.
Tyrael:
--- Quote ---The world being flat was never a fact as it was never proven to be true.
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Thats true, but then it was a fact for them and for that matter they wanted to kill that guy that said the world wasnt flat, that it was round instead (Galileo was it?), so when they couldnt throw him from the limits of the world, and realized that galileo was right, that fact was proven false (kinda like hell said).
Mo:
--- Quote ---Thats true, but then it was a fact for them and for that matter they wanted to kill that guy that said the world wasnt flat, that it was round instead (Galileo was it?), so when they couldnt throw him from the limits of the world, and realized that galileo was right, that fact was proven false (kinda like hell said).
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No it was never a fact. The Egyptians proved the world was round 2500 years ago. Don't confused fact with religious beliefs of the Catholic Church or whom ever. Is it a "fact" that Jesus was resurrected?
The world got a lot dumber after the Library of Alexandria was burned down. Some people figure we'd be centuries ahead of where we are today if all that knowledge wasn't lost and the world skipped the dark ages.
Tyrael:
Sorry mo but galileo isnt a belief, its common history, he was the guy who invented the telescope actually, he got sentenced for defying the catholic church and aristoteles work (where supposedly the earth was the center of the universe and everything goes around it) and the earth its flat part. So in that times aristoteles proved in any way that the earth was flat and then later on Galileo proved that wrong and he was considered a traitor.
Galileo Galilei
So jesus resurrection has nothing to do with this guy xD.
Mo:
--- Quote ---Sorry mo but galileo isnt a belief, its common history, he was the guy who invented the telescope actually, he got sentenced for defying the catholic church and aristoteles work (where supposedly the earth was the center of the universe and everything goes around it) and the earth its flat part. So in that times aristoteles proved in any way that the earth was flat and then later on Galileo proved that wrong and he was considered a traitor.
Galileo Galilei
So jesus resurrection has nothing to do with this guy xD.
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ooook there Mr. Revisionist History lol
--- Quote ---Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) was Plato's prize student and "the mind of the school." Aristotle observed "there are stars seen in Egypt and [...] Cyprus which are not seen in the northerly regions." Since this could only happen on a curved surface, he too believed Earth was a sphere
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_earth
People knew the Earth was round long before Galileo. Galileo happened to live in a period of time where the Church controlled the knowledge of the Western world (Dark Ages).
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