archaeo Wrote:
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> Khazar-khum Wrote:
> ....
> > No, Archeo, it was not only "clerics" (you
> use the
> > word as if it were poisonous, which is
> offensive)
> > who believed that the Earth was the center
> ...
>
> I did not say it was only clerics.
> And, false ideation is poison!
>
>
> > It was based on Ptolemy's work.
>
> There were competing ideas and the false one
> dominated.
> Western Civilization lacked one good thinker for
> many centuries!
> While the truth was obvious all the while.
There were many good thinkers. They simply explored other parts of the world. And the truth was NOT obvious.
> Meanwhile, the clerics used their false cosmology
> to reinforce their false religion.
Excuse me? Care to explain this?
