(May 13, 2010 at 4:32 am)AngelThMan Wrote:Eilonnwy Wrote:The majority of people believed the world was flat hundreds of years ago...The idea that people once believed the world is flat is a myth. All people had to do was stand on a mountain and see the curvature of the earth. Ancient writings demonstrate that people understood that the earth was round.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth
Indeed you are correct, however I wasn't referring to the medieval Christianity, but in general terms. A flat earth hypothesis was still a popular belief in the past. I should have been more specific.
Wikipedia Wrote:Beginning from ancient Greek astronomy, the paradigm of a round (or more accurately, spherical) earth gradually spread around the world supplanting the older cosmological belief in a flat earth.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth
Regardless of that little clarification, my point about the fallacy is still spot on, which you haven't addressed.
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