Just A Thought ~ “THE EARTH IS ROUND!”

"The Church says the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church."

~ Ferdinand Magellan, 1480 - 1521, Portuguese navigator and explorer, the first European to cross the Pacific Ocean ~

Brave man, Magellan, to say such a thing when the Inquisition held sway, and the rack and stake were hungry for 'heretics.' However did he manage to escape?

Belief gives way to Fact, but not without a struggle; Western science had to face opposition at every step of the way, and why not? It is only thus that Fact is established, and Belief dethroned.