maliagar wrote::wink:
A voice in the wilderness said:
Quote:The evidence is also overwhelming that most of mankind has believed that the Earth is a pancake flat object situated in the center of the UNIVERSE -- and all those lights circle it. Belief!
So predictable an argument... and so useless.
It fails to see one little piece of evidence...
If people thought that the earth was flat, or the center of the universe, it was because.....
.
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The empirical evidence available to them supported that conclusion...
...not faith.
AhhhhÂ….and these silly, poorly thought out words coming from Maliagar -- a man who has often pointed out the folly of "believing" in modern science.
The people "believed" what Maliagar termed "the empirical evidence." Although actually, they "believed" their interpretation of the empirical evidence - not the empirical evidence - and Maliagar's addition of "available to them" does not change that.
The "belief" that the Earth was flat and centered in the UNIVERSE was exactly that - a belief.
Although I will agree with the subtext of what Maliagar wrote -- that their belief that the Earth was flat and centered in the UNIVERSE makes a lot more sense than some of the beliefs he is touting.
By the way, if anyone can get in touch with Maliagar, you can tell him for me that referring to me as a "voice crying in the wilderness" is a very nice touch. Isn't that what they called John the Baptist? Thank him for me.
Also tell him not to feel bad about the fact that I cut out all the dramatic space in his posting when I quoted it. The spacing was trite - better to be used when sharing jokes over the Internet.
I think I improved his comments with the editing.
