Do you believe in god, if not do you believe in something else?

[hsrob]

Jackson50 said:

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.

 

I'll keep it brief because we are kinda going off topic.  Although i was aware the whole Columbus being the first to believe the Earth was round since the Greeks was nonsense, i wasn't aware of how heavily the Dark Ages ignorance of this fact was refuted these days.  So although my timescale is definitely off my main point remains and that is it takes time before things that are well accepted in scientific circles become generally accepted into public conciousness.