re: #340 Dragonwolf

Let me ask you this…Wasn’t it the scientists who said the world was flat until they had more evidence?

Actually it was not. Educated people have known since ancient times that the Earth was roughly a sphere, since before “scientists” existed as a professional category. Aristotle proposed a famous series of proofs for the spherical shape of the Earth, and Eratosthenes of Cyrene accurately calculated the circumference of the Earth in the third century BC. The Romans knew the distance from the Earth to the Sun, from comparing the arc of the Earth’s shadow to that of the lunar disk during eclipses. It is a myth that belief in a flat Earth was one of the objections to Columbus’s voyages. Ferdinand and Isabella’s scientific advisors not only believed the Earth was round, they knew the real distance to Japan, which Columbus himself did not.