Faith, a requirement of God for salvation is understandably in short supply among most scientific eggheads.
If would hurt their pride to even consider the possibility that they actually do not know it all.
Learning the world was round must have been painful.
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It was those"scientific eggheads" who came up with the "theory" of a round Earth. If it was up to your infallible book and religious leaders, you would be in prison for asserting that the Earth is round!