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William Herschel, the 19th century astronomer who discovered the planet Uranus, also thought it possible that there was a region below the Sun’s surface where men might live according to Patrick Moore’s book, New Guide to the Moon (W.W. Norton & Company, New York: 1976).

He sounds like one of your Prophets. How do you tell the difference?

[Grig]

“He sounds like one of your Prophets.”

He sounds like a good many people of that day and age. Would you have a crisis of faith if some document came to light that showed beyond doubt that Peter, James and John thought the earth was flat and the sun went around it? Not me. That is what everyone believed back then. Likewise, in the 19th century men’s ideas about the conditions on other celestial bodies were wrong, and in light of modern science, silly.