Please help me with a writing assignment: I seriously don't know what to write about...
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"The Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw once famously noted that, 'All great truths begin as blasphemies.' Can you think of example of such a truth , or such a person who spoke great truths but was derided in his/her own time as a dangerous criminal, an insane lunatic, a hopeless dreamer, etc., but who has been proved right in the long run?"
I can't think of anyone..Please, help...Jesus doesn't count..
2007-05-24 09:56:26 · 5 answers · asked by cherryblossom 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Pythagoras from 6th century BC would be your best bet. He is believed to be the first person to propose that the world is shaped like a sphere during the time that they believed the world was flat. But Eratosthenes has already calculated its rough circumference by the 3rd century. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth)
Darwin's theory of evolution is still, up to this day, a theory even though it presents a good case. We do not have enough scientific evidence that we did evolve from primates. But we do have evidence that the world is round (spherical) and not flat.
2007-05-24 10:15:38 · answer #1 · answered by Honesty 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Please help me with a writing assignment: I seriously don't know what to write about...
Here is the instruction:
"The Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw once famously noted that, 'All great truths begin as blasphemies.' Can you think of example of such a truth , or such a...
2015-08-06 23:03:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok, Galileo Galilei got in trouble because he defended heliocentrism. That is one. Still a bit on the religious side since it was the church he got in trouble with.
Dr. Kohn Likoudis got in trouble for trying to treat ulcers with anti-biotics. Today, we know that can be an acceptable treatment.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/s1443249.htm
I will think and see if I can come up with others.
2007-05-24 10:05:23 · answer #3 · answered by A.Mercer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2015-08-04 21:19:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
darwin, nearly any philosophers, christopher columbus who belived the earth was round when everybody thought it was flat.
Copernicus- first taught that the earth wasn't the center of the universe
2007-05-24 10:03:16 · answer #5 · answered by Terrence W 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Darwin, and his theory of evolution.
2007-05-24 10:00:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋