Another question for cons: Who told them back in the past scientists believed the earth was flat?

Question

Please list the scientific organizations or the name of the scientists who believed the earth was flat.

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Fact is modern science (as in scientific method) didn't begin until the Age of Enlightenment with people like Copernicus, Galileo, Tycho, Kepler, and Newton. Nobody believed the Earth was flat back then. Even the fundies in the Catholic Church didn't believe this. They believed the universe revolved around the Sun. People figured out the earth was round since Greek times.

FYI: The Christopher Columbus controversy was not over whether the Earth was flat, but over how big it was. Google Columbus and flat earth to learn more.

Oops.

Mean to say Catholics believed the universe revolved around the EARTH. My bad.

Shana,

First off, I noticed you did not answer the question. No scientist ever believed the earth was flat. That argument is false.

Second I do see your argument, but the fact is "truth" in science can never be known. In science, you can only DISPROVE scientific theories. You can never prove them with 100% to be true.

Having said that we must rely on the scientific consensus at the time as the best explanation of reality, until the scientific consensus has changed. Man made global warming has been studied for years, and the scientific consensus has only gotten stronger.

Answer 1

scientist and philosophers were one in the same back then...

Belief in a flat Earth is found in mankind's oldest writings. In early Mesopotamian thought, the world was portrayed as a flat disk floating in the ocean, and this forms the premise for early Greek maps like those of Anaximander and Hecataeus.

The common misconception that people before the age of exploration believed that Earth was flat entered the popular imagination after Washington Irving's publication of The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1828. In the United States, this belief persists in the popular imagination, and is even repeated in some widely read textbooks.

Answer 2

first I'm not a con at all, I'm a member of the Labour party
ok then, so your saying because people say it is fact now it will be fact for the rest of time? history tells us not, countless times have scientists been wrong

A recent one would be the make up of an atom, everyone believed that the electrons and protons moved around all places and that neutrons didn't exist

But! then they found out this was not true!

The same could happen with global warming my friend!


What about the prove that every planet in the solar system is heating up, is our carbon heating these planets up as well?
or is it maybe the sun, and there is scientific prove that the sun is heating up!

There's a theory that i believe, now i am not saying you are right or Wrong, im just saying i respect your view and this is mine, i hope you can do the same

Answer 3

A lib Had to be ancestors of Global Al and his band of Goofy Goobers

Answer 4

You just don't listen , it's all George Bush's fault ! the left says so ! ! ! !