Scott Seidman wrote:
"rb608" wrote in news:1166043073.560987.269080@
73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com:

Many of those might believe the earth is flat; but that doesn't mean we
should squander resources teaching it in school.

Turns out that this flat earth thing is a myth, tracable to Washington
Irving's book about Columbus!! By about 50BC, everyone generally believed
that the Earth was spherical.

Swap it for sun orbiting the earth, the result is the same.
- Ken