From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in message
news:463cf588$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Robert Comer wrote:
>>> In short, dismissing something called a Theory simply because it is
>>> *called* a theory is intellectual "Luddite-ism".
>>
>> Aye, but thinking of it as fact is the same.
>>
>
> What has either got to do with "belief"?
>
> Belief has no requirement for facts whatsoever.
>
> I do not need to believe that the earth is anything other than flat.
>
> Until man went into space & esp into orbit I could dismiss all evidence
> to the contrary as "a theory".
>
> Adam
>

Not really Eratosthenes (276-194 BC) calculated the circumference of the
earth. He also measured the tilt of the Earth's axis and the distance to
the sun and the moon.

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