(March 2, 2013 at 1:03 pm)Question Mark Wrote:(March 2, 2013 at 12:48 pm)FallentoReason Wrote: Pythagoras in the 6th century B.C.E. was already onto the idea of a spherical Earth.
A spherical earth had been postulated as early as that, and became generally accepted by the 3rd century BCE, and then disseminated by the end of antiquity. The claim that people believed the earth was flat is a popular myth based on the fact that the earth was not shown practically to have been spherical until the beginning of the modern era, in the 1500's I believe.
A spherical earth had been calculated long before the Qu'ran was written.
Spot on! And to think we're supposed to believe from these fundies that we need a god to tell us things we can derive on our own...
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle