Re:pathetic (Score 1)

Actually, Galieo was not persecuted because he said that the world was not flat. It was because he advocated the Copernican view of a heliocentric model of the known Universe, in which the Sun was at the centre, as opposed to the Earth being at the centre. From as early as the third centry BC, no educated person in the western civilised world belived that the Earth was flat. This idea seems to have been perpetrated by proponents of Dawinism as a way of making Creationists seem even more stupid than they actually are.