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The latter sentence parses as either malformed or false, to me. The earth appears to be round from space because it's round, not vice versa; the earth is round because of the forces that were involved in its creation.
I do agree that the 'should' needs to go, but I think the formulation should look something like 'it is rational to believe [thing] because [evidence]' or 'I/we believe [thing] because [evidence]'.
Fair enough. "Because" itself isn't perfectly transparent word: X because Y may mean that
In any case, should is redundand.
This is a good way to formulate it. I'll implement this now.