http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemaic_system

The contemporary view of the brightest minds on the planet was Geocentric until only 500 to 600 years ago (believed for over a Millennium by the "educated world" and probably the uneducated largely as well). So that fact that "alot" (sic) of people believe it is inconsequential. A lot of people (over a billion) believe communism is a fine approach to government, that doesn't make it true. A lot of people thought "professional wrasslen" was real sport. There are multitudes of examples where the masses are led to believe things that later don't hold water.

I'll start believing scientists can figure out the long term stuff (climate change), as soon as they can predictably prognosticate tomorrow's weather with a better than 75% kill ratio OR when they stop closing their ears to the possibility of other theories. They have become the Church of the middle ages who stifled scientists simply because these scientists who created the foundations for modern science thought differently.


I like science with my science and faith with my faith. I don't necessarily think the two should be confused or cross pollinated.