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Life. Don't talk to me about life.

I look forward to Friday mornings because I get to read James Randi's SWIFT column. It always has the latest woowoo news and other idiocies being inflicted on the world.

Today's had an interesting tidbit, pointing to an article on Wikipedia about the Flat Earth mythology that debunks the common misperception that until modern times, it was a wide spread assumption that the world was flat.

In fact, there's strong historical evidence that going all the way back to the ancient greeks, there was no such viewpoint (or at least it was very very limited). The misperception arose from the religion vs science debates toward the end of the 19th century, when Darwin's writings were very much in the public eye.

Well that's one personal misconception corrected. Enlightenment continues.

Posted by dbs at May 30, 2008 9:47 AM