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Originally Posted by bhutocracy
Actually that the earth was flat and that the sun revolved around the earth was a biblical conceit.
1 Chronicles 16:30: "He has fixed the earth firm, immovable."
Psalm 93:1: "Thou hast fixed the earth immovable and firm ..."
Psalm 96:10: "He has fixed the earth firm, immovable ..."
You remember Galileo right? What the church did to him when he tried to prove the movement of the earth?
I wouldn't blame science that much for this one. And even if you could, there wasn't a seperation science and religion until at least the enlightenment.. and even then you had Isaac Newton saying that god interfered with the alignment of the planets every now and then to keep them on course.
But in essence you are mostly sound in that science "learns from it's mistakes" but it's facts AND theories... not just theories. It takes a lot to become a fact and a scientific theory isn't the same as a common theory.. Gravity is "only" a theory.
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yeah i know, but at the time it was a common belief by the majority of people that the world was flat and the sun did revolve around the Earth. based on what was known and the tools available, this is what made most sense to them. obviously gallileo was correct and the church eventually acknowledged his findings. it was too late though, he was already burning in hell
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anyway it's a perfect example of why you should keep an open mind. just because something appears to work one way now, doesn't mean we won't determine it works a different way in the future. it's foolish to think we won't learn more about our universe and how it all works in the future.
we're barely able to leave the planet, but we've proven 100% there is no God? lol get real. that's just wishful thinking. everyone wants to feel secure. they want to know they're right. it doesn't matter if you're a bible thumper or an atheist, buying into a belief system 100% does nothing more than provide you with some sort of comfort.
life is a mystery. it always has been. it probably always will be.