[mountainbunny]

Kinda like flat earth theory.

I wonder how many people ever actually believed in a flat earth? If you stand on the beach, you can see the curve of the earth. If you stand on the same beach, or on a plain, you can see ships/people/wagons/whatever making their way up from the horizon.

People seem to have the idea that generations before ours were stone cold stupid, and of course, they weren't.

[Ken H]

It could be worse. People in Kansas believe in the flat state theory.

[wastedyears]

This isn’t just generations, this is far before our Founding Fathers’ time.

[SunkenCiv]

Well said.

[bubbacluck]

In all fairness, to a casual observer with very dark sunglasses, the sun does appear to revolve around the earth.

[al_c]

Apparently, some still do ...

Do a web search for “flat earth society” ... lots of crazies out there.

[kevao]

I wonder how many people ever actually believed in a flat earth? If you stand on the beach, you can see the curve of the earth.

In the flat-earth days, science was the exclusive domain of men. And when men stand on a beach, the curves they study are not those the Earth....