starożytność: Flat Earth

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The "Flat Earth" Belief: The Scientific Evidence of its Inconsistency. A Narrative Review. The belief in a "flat Earth" has ancient roots and remained unchanged for several millennia, albeit with some differences in popular narrative tradition. With the flourishing of the scientific method in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries AD, this belief increasingly lost ground, being labeled exclusively as a popular belief. Few articles in the scientific literature address this topic, and all equally confirm this conclusion. However, even today, starting in the twentieth century, thousands of people have returned to disbelief in anti-scientific theories, which underline conspiracy and religious se…

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Geography (from Ancient Greek γεωγραφία geōgraphía; combining gê 'Earth' and gráphō 'write', lit. 'Earth writing') is the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of planet Earth. Geography is an all-encompassing discipline that seeks an understanding of Earth and its human and natural complexities—not merely where objects are, but also how they have changed and come to be. While geography is specific to Earth, many concepts can be applied more broadly to other celestial bodies in the field of planetary science. Geography has been called "a bridge between natural science and social science disciplines." The history of geography as a discipline spans cultures and millennia, h…

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Theistic evolution (also known as theistic evolutionism or God-guided evolution, or alternatively called evolutionary creationism) is a view that God acts and creates through laws of nature. Here, God is taken as the primary cause while natural causes are secondary, positing that the concept of God and religious beliefs are compatible with the findings of modern science, including evolution. Theistic evolution is not in itself a scientific theory, but includes a range of views about how science relates to religious beliefs and the extent to which God intervenes. It rejects the strict creationist doctrines of special creation but can include beliefs such as creation of the human soul. Modern…

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