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Comment author: Azathoth123 05 November 2014 01:23:16AM *  5 points [-]

Why this pressure has not made the atomistic idea, or the spherical Earth, formulated almost three thousands of year ago, immediately popular?

As advancedatheist said in the OC:

We can't observe gods, but women exist empirically, and men have had to live with them all along.

Rather then mocking his phrasing maybe you should try actually paying attention to his point.

Past history was about guns, germs and steel, not about truth.

In particular truths about metallurgy and the chemistry of gunpowder.