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12-06-2006, 03:50 PM
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the earth is flat
if history is any indicator, whatever you think is a truth today is probably incorrect. hundreds of years ago people were certain the earth was flat, and any speculation otherwise was considered as blasphemous as if someone today claimed they could live forever.
what are some other old truths in the same vein ? (not limited to astronomy, just first things that came to mind) -the earth is flat -the earth is the center of the solar system 
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12-06-2006, 04:02 PM
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Re: the earth is flat
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] there is a God [/ QUOTE ] I think you got confused by the question posed by the OP. I fixed your post for you. [/ QUOTE ] You are still thinking like a caveman. [/ QUOTE ] Are you saying that cavemen didn't believe in the supernatural?
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12-06-2006, 04:05 PM
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Re: the earth is flat
There are very few areas of beliefs that the bulk of todays people have that don't fit nicely with the beliefs of 2000 years ago. If you don't interact much with the 'average person' then just watch a segment or two of JayWalking on Leno and hear the responses he gets from college grads/students/teachers.
Of the 1000's of people a person interacts with over time it's hard to find a few that don't have some magical beliefs .. not counting their religious ones. Other than creature comfort issues, most people on the planet would fit nicely in the 14th century. luckyme
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12-06-2006, 04:06 PM
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Re: the earth is flat
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] there is a God [/ QUOTE ] I think you got confused by the question posed by the OP. I fixed your post for you. [/ QUOTE ] You are still thinking like a caveman. [/ QUOTE ] Are you saying that cavemen didn't believe in the supernatural? [/ QUOTE ] I've seen those geico commercials. Cavemen are clearly atheists.
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12-06-2006, 04:12 PM
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Re: the earth is flat
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] there is a God [/ QUOTE ] I think you got confused by the question posed by the OP. I fixed your post for you. [/ QUOTE ] You are still thinking like a caveman. [/ QUOTE ] Are you saying that cavemen didn't believe in the supernatural? [/ QUOTE ] I've seen those geico commercials. Cavemen are clearly atheists. [/ QUOTE ] Have humans always believed in the supernatural? If not, then those pre-supernatural believing humans were the flat-earth types. If the answer is always, that is quite interesting.
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12-06-2006, 04:22 PM
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Re: the earth is flat
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] there is a God [/ QUOTE ] I think you got confused by the question posed by the OP. I fixed your post for you. [/ QUOTE ] You are still thinking like a caveman. [/ QUOTE ] Are you saying that cavemen didn't believe in the supernatural? [/ QUOTE ] I've seen those geico commercials. Cavemen are clearly atheists. [/ QUOTE ] Have humans always believed in the supernatural? If not, then those pre-supernatural believing humans were the flat-earth types. If the answer is always, that is quite interesting. [/ QUOTE ] It's an impossible question to answer definitively, but yes, humans have always believed in the supernatural. Believing in the supernatural allows you to explain things that you do not understand. Since early man knew almost nothing of science, it isn't much of a leap to believe that they'd be more likely to believe in the supernatural. Why do you think that the Mayans and Egyptians built pyramids? Why do you think the Romans and Greeks had so many different gods? Secular societies are a relatively new phenomenon.
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12-06-2006, 04:23 PM
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Re: the earth is flat
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if history is any indicator, whatever you think is a truth today is probably incorrect. [/ QUOTE ] that's a stretch..although perhaps to the extent that "there is more to the story"...you are correct.
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