Jackson50 on 17 November 2008
| hsrob said:Just because many people may not be able to understand the intricies and complexities of a theory like the Big Bang doesn't make it untrue. Layperson's logic told us for centuries that the world was flat despite the fact that there were mathematicians in about 450 B.C. that proved using relatively simple maths that the world was in fact round. Yet the idea persisted in western countries for close to 2 millenia because most people couldn't 'see for themselves'. |
I believe you are confusing flat-earth theory with the geocentrism/heliocentrism debate. Most Westerners believed in spherical earth. Many, however, doubted the idea of heliocentrism.
