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.
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.
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.
Just read the opening parts of the bible and you begin to understand how backwards peoples knowledge was in the past.
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.
Does the big bang also count as spontaneous generation?
The big bang describes the expansion and cooling of stuff, not the origin of that stuff.
Like the theme to the terrible sitcom says:
“The whole universe was in a hot dense state, then nearly 14 billion years ago expansion started”
Wait…
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.
Actually, they just patched in more complex systems once we started getting wise.
I don’t know, I have visited the US.