Quote (DarkestLight @ Mon, Sep 28 2009, 06:04pm)
You mean the fact that your pretending that the big bang has any actual proof?
It wasnt flawless but people had a pretty god damn good idea of how flat the earth was till we figured out that it wasnt flat
aaah there are like 15412412 points that i want to jump in on in this topic.. but i will choose this 1 first and go from there.....
just FYI one of the things that Pythagoras's successors and students (including Plato) gave credit to Pythagoras about was his
thinking that the Earth was not flat. There are no direct writings from Pythagoras to verify that he was the first to scientificly challenge
the idea that the Earth was flat; but Plato does mention in some of his writings that Pythagoras would often talk about how if Earth was
flat, then where did all of the running water come from and where did it go. And Eratosthenes did mention that his calculation of the
circumference of the Earth (that assumes the Earth is round) was loosely based on the work of Plato and (indirectly) Pythagoras.
My point in all of this is Pythagoras, Plato and Eratosthenes are largely considered the founders and first members of an organized and
documented system of expirimentation and thought, aka Science. So your arguement is kind of null, in that prooving the Earth was round
was actually science's first great accomplishment.