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Originally Posted by Altar
because you don't want to be judged or held responsible
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But we are held responsible. We are held responsible by society, we break a law, we go to jail.
And about Columbus. He thought he was in India, because he was trying to see if there was a shortcut by going by water. At the time, nobody in Europe knew the Americas existed.
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Originally Posted by Sage of Earth
Hm. You learn something new every day. So what about Christopher Columbus? "Don't sail over the edge!"?
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I am still amazed at where it first appears. No one before the 1830s believed that medieval people thought that the earth was flat. The idea was established, almost contemporaneously, by a Frenchman and an American, between whom I have not been able to establish a connection, though they were both in Paris at the same time. One was Antoine-Jean Letronne (1787-1848), an academic of strong antireligious prejudices who had studied both geography and patristics and who cleverly drew upon both to misrepresent the church fathers and their medieval successors as believing in a flat earth, in his On the Cosmographical Ideas of the Church Fathers (1834).
The American was no other than our beloved storyteller Washington Irving (1783-1859), who loved to write historical fiction under the guise of history. His misrepresentations of the history of early New York City and of the life of Washington were topped by his history of Christopher Columbus (1828). It was he who invented the indelible picture of the young Columbus, a "simple mariner," appearing before a dark crowd of benighted inquisitors and hooded theologians at a council of Salamanca, all of whom believed, according to Irving, that the earth was flat like a plate. Well, yes, there was a meeting at Salamanca in 1491, but Irving's version of it, to quote a distinguished modern historian of Columbus, was "pure moonshine. Washington Irving, scenting his opportunity for a picturesque and moving scene," created a fictitious account of this "nonexistent university council" and "let his imagination go completely...the whole story is misleading and mischievous nonsense."
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Studies in the History of Science
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Originally Posted by Altar
Eternal Paradox, I meant 3D pictures. That pic just looks like a disc to me.
lol GDwarf, I love it when people quote Richard Dawkins. Especially after the Expelled movie came out. Wasn't that great? He really did make quite a fool of himself...
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Thats because we can only see one part of the Earth at a time.
Secondly, that Expelled movie was a sham. They deliberately tried to make Evolution, Dawkins, and others foolish. Instead of asking scientific questions.
http://www.expelledexposed.com/