Sometimes us history buffs get laughs out of these things. I was listening to a Catholic thinker make a case for the uniqueness of Earth, and what came to my m

Sometimes us history buffs get laughs out of these things. I was listening to a Catholic thinker make a case for the uniqueness of Earth, and what came to my mind was how Augustine accepted the possibility of other continents and how the world was round, but concluded based on the Bible that humans could not possibly be inhabiting anywhere beyond Asia, Africa, and Europe. This view remained the standard view until after it became clear that Columbus had in fact not reached Asia but instead a new continent, and that it was INHABITED. I wonder how much theology of so many people will have to be discarded or rethought as we find more reason to think there are inhabited planets elsewhere in the universe.