RE: Shit. What The Hell. Jesus Never Existed
August 12, 2015 at 10:09 pm
(This post was last modified: August 12, 2015 at 10:10 pm by Homeless Nutter.)
(August 12, 2015 at 9:52 pm)Redbeard The Pink Wrote: [...]For a long time Galileo was virtually the only person who believed the Earth orbits the Sun, and look what happened there.
Not strictly true. Copernicus published "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" in 1543. It just took 70 years for the Catholics to sit up, take notice and - naturally - over-react, drawing general public's attention to the issue.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
