Does the big bang also count as spontaneous generation?
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
These are the same people that believed in spontaneous generation - that life just popped into existence from nonliving matter, such as dirt, grain, or dirty clothing. It wasn’t considered fully disproven until the 19th century.
As uneducated as many people are now, they’re practically savants compared to your average person just 200 years ago.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 months ago
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The big bang describes the expansion and cooling of stuff, not the origin of that stuff.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wait…
Semjeza@fedinsfw.app 2 months ago
Uncertain, as no one knows about the causes or condition before it.
That’s the nice thing about science, it just says what the evidence shows and is happy to label the rest: TBC.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I don’t know, I have visited the US.
can@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Actually, they just patched in more complex systems once we started getting wise.
Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just read the opening parts of the bible and you begin to understand how backwards peoples knowledge was in the past.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2 months ago
Read the novel [or watch the movie] ‘The Name of the Rose’ by Umberto Eco.
One of the themes of the story is showing the shift from educated Europeans getting their knowledge from ancient books to them doing science and investigating the world.