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Old Feb 4, 2007, 12:06 pm   #20 (permalink) (top)
xyzer
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The flat earth myth... ahh nice one.
Greek astronomers had long observed that the earth was not flat even centuries before Christ.

It was Copernicus who said the solar system was heliocentric. It was a commonly held belief from Aristotle to Copernicus that the Earth was the center of the universe.
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Thanks for confirming my skepticism Chris...What we call myth was scientific belief in yesteryear? Obviously then, what is postulated by some as scientific fact today may be disproven with more knowledge and scientific measurement? Should we waste resources on correcting what is not logically proven? Should we put all our eggs in one tenuous basket?

Sure we should attempt to lessen anthropogenic pollutants..but that doesn't mean we need to waste resources trying to change natural climate cycles which are more likely(I like that word it gives me an over 90% accuracy rate?) to be the causes for climate change?


Thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.
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