AR > "You mention the flat earth idea. This is so bad that just a few minutes with one of its adherents should be enough to persuade any reasonable person of its error."There is an interesting essay by Isaac Asimov that you may like. It is called 'The Relativity of Wrong'.Here are a couple of snippets:"When people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.""Nowadays, of course, we are taught that the flat-earth theory is wrong; that it is all wrong, terribly wrong, absolutely. But it isn't. The curvature of the earth is nearly 0 per mile, so that although the flat-earth theory is wrong, it happens to be nearly right. That's why the theory lasted so long."And here is the conclusion:"Naturally, the theories we now have might be considered wrong in the simplistic sense of my English Lit correspondent, but in a much truer and subtler sense, they need only be considered incomplete."https://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm
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