[WVKayaker]

Let's start with the once commonly accepted idea that maggots spontaneously generated from rotten meat.

...commonly accepted idea... more of the same...

[raygun]

I don’t know, its probably just me, but I aint accepting the idea that straw men arise from spontaneously rotting meat.

But I will accept the idea that science has conclusively proven that the Earth is not flat, is not the center of the universe, nor held up by a giant turtle. Moreover, the foregoing notwithstanding, and nevertheless, neither do things fall off the world when they travel beyond the edge of the map; eveon so the region beyond the map may be the region of dragons and stuff.

Furthermore, I believe science has had its say about the type of cheese that the moon is made of too.

[tacticalogic]

...commonly accepted idea... more of the same...

If that's a strawman, then we need to purge that from the history books. What do you think we'll have left by the time we're done with this little exercise in calling everything a strawman?