If you go back 1000 years to central America, there were all kinds of "experts" with literally books full of data saying that if you didn't keep on sacrificing people to the Gods, the sun would decide not to rise anymore (almost all remaining books from the time and place are about this topic). A lot of people would get very worked up if you said that maybe you didn't need to sacrifice people to keep the sun from rising. I'm sure they'd explain in detail what would happen if the sun stopped rising and why we must continue to sacrifice people.
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@sj_zero But we are so much smarter than people in the past! They were all just so stupid because they did not have a college education! That is how you become smart, my professors told me so!
A big mistake in modern times many people make is the assumption that we are more intelligent than those in the past.
