> At least I find it difficult to believe it wasn't until the 16th century that someone worked this out and everyone prior was of some woefully mistaken (yet su

> At least I find it difficult to believe it wasn't until the 16th century that someone worked this out and everyone prior was of some woefully mistaken (yet suspiciously Christian-aligned) view that the Earth was the center of the universe. That was because we do not perceive the Earth moving, but we see the stars move. Nobody could answer objections like why we don't go flying off the Earth if it's spinning. Yet any idiot could take a ball, put a rock or something on it, spin the ball and show you what happens. Why is the Earth itself somehow different? It's like how they knew that stellar parallax should exist, but nobody could measure it, which caused heliocentrism to be lacking evidence for quite a long time because the stars are just that far away that it's tiny. If you go to the average person now, I think you'll find that most people who accept all this science can't even give full explanations for why.