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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Eh, the same spirit of skepticism is what has lead to our advances in technology. Even if flat earthers are centuries behind in science, the spirit of exploration is what propels us forward, or in this case, a few hundred feet into the air.
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Try a few
millennia behind--Eratosthenes proved the Earth is round and accurately estimated its circumference around 240 BCE.
There's a difference between skepticism (which I would argue is not the driver behind technological advance anyway) and willful ignorance. The fellow in question embraces the latter.