![]() ![]() What they were unsure of was the circumference of the planet. Greek astronomers were aware almost 300 years before the time of Christ that the Earth was round. The idea that Columbus sailed to the “New World” against the wisdom of his day is a complete myth. Beck managed to one-up the President in the myth department by inserting Galileo into the story. In all fairness to President Obama, conservative television personality Glen Beck repeated the same historical blunder on his show just a year earlier. ![]() They would not have believed that the world was round. Some of these folks were around when Columbus set sail-they must have been founding members of the Flat-Earth Society. We’ve heard this kind of thinking before. ![]() They were against raising fuel standards. Lately we’ve heard a lot of professional politicians-a lot of the folks who are running for a certain office, who shall go unnamed-they’ve been talking down new sources of energy. Speaking to a crowd in Washington in 2012, President Barack Obama charged Republicans with dismissing alternative energy sources by comparing them to those who thought Columbus should not set sail: Ingersoll is not the only famous American political leader to appeal to this bogus belief. I believe it was Magellan who said,”The church says the earth is flat but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the church.” On the prow of his ship were disobedience, defiance, scorn, and success. It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions - someone who had the grandeur to say his say. The quote can be traced back to an essay titled Individuality by famous American political leader and defender of agnosticism, Robert G. Of course, this quote often appears without any citation to its source. ![]() The Church says the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow of the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church. ![]()
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