Of course they did. There is no reason to assume people were stupid [in the past] and just got smart overnight. These were smart people struggling with a paradi

Of course they did. There is no reason to assume people were stupid [in the past] and just got smart overnight. These were smart people struggling with a paradigm shift that would upset almost all their theoretical apple carts. It was an epistomelogical crisis but not of the spiritual flavor as it has been alleged.