Do you know what the Chinese were building in 1100 AD? A three story high gadget called a Cosmic Engine. It was a water driven, escapement type clock that kept track of various aspects of time. It took for granted the fact that the sun sits at the center of our solar system. Five Hundred years later, the Catholic Church was threatening to burn Galileo at the stake for saying the same thing, thus committing two unforgivable sins; refusing to change and threatening to burn someone over an idea (no idea is perfect enough to justify that action).
We have to thank the Catholic church for it's monumental efforts to keep us in the Dark Ages. Thank God we have taken that kind of power away from them.
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