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Monday, July 16, 2012

On the Flat Earth Myth

Posted on 11:10 AM by Unknown
A redated post.

Did Columbus have trouble getting his voyage funded because everyone believed in flat earth? I was taught that in school. But it is a piece of anti-medieval slander, perpetrated by people like Andrew Dickson White.

Are there myths today that advocates of religion-science warfare like to propagate?
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