" wrote in message
ps.com...

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.

O.k., is it just me, or does anyone else have an uneasy suspicion that that
sentence might mean something or other?

Wolfgang