Everyone of intelligence knew the earth was round since the Ancient Greeks (in the West—not the East). Newton wrote more on Theology than he did on Science and he delighted in the Design and the Laws of Nature and knew he could prove that there is a God because of that Intelligent Design. Without Design, there is no Science possible.
But you are correct——Science and Knowledge when faced with a paradigm shift-——is usually ALWAYS rejected at first. It is called Normal Science.
People can not easily discard their conceptions of Reality. It is a struggle.
That is how cognitive dissonance works and is why the brainwashing of our children in the Prussian public schools is so effective——children will actually believe Lies that are repeated OVER AND OVER and it will be nearly IMPOSSIBLE to get them to see the Truth since emotions are embedded with the Lies.
Why? Because the ideas are planted at young emotional years (irrational) and those emotions take over Reason when Truth is exposed. No Reason because they weren’t given Classical Education and they were sexualized so everything is EMOTIONS——creates great emotional stress when ideas don’t easily fit together -—and so the resulting anger makes people shut down all debate- and they “feel” what is true and they NEVER want to go against what the Pop Culture says is “truth” because they will be alienated and demeaned and excluded. After all, they are “herd” animals and have been trained to fit in and be a group thinker so they are “liked” and “feel” popular.
Weren't also they a bunch of screaming faggots?