Does the big bang also count as spontaneous generation?
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours 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 9 hours ago
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
I don’t know, I have visited the US.
can@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Actually, they just patched in more complex systems once we started getting wise.
Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 14 hours 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 10 hours 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.