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Originally Posted by Infinite_Loser
"Common sense" is irrelevant in both religious and scientific terms. "Common sense" says the earth is flat; the moon, the sun and planets revolve around the earth; the earth isn't hurtling at a few thousand kilometers through space etc.
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Common sense describes none of these. The Earth can easily be demonstrated as not flat by a layman who can see someone or something travel over the horizon and then return with tales of... jack shit. No one falls of the end, thus the world is not flat. The sun, moon, blah blah... it's all a matter of very, very simple astronomy. When one realizes the movement of the stars relative to the sun and moon it becomes strikingly obvious. As for distance from the Earth to the sun? Triangulation. Take the position of the sun in the sky on two points on the Earth at the same time from far apart, then triangulate. Bam, about 92,000,000 miles. Common sense is not sitting there and guessing like an idiot. It's idiots that slow scientific development.