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Philosopher: "For all your science your beleifs are no better than a flat disc on the back of elephants resting on a turtle's back"

Astronomer: "Even without science that makes no sense, what is the turtle resting on top of!"

Philosopher: "Another turtle, its turtles all the way down!"

Astronomer: "See, that is just absurd, how could anyone believe that!"

Philosopher: "What does your science say keeps the earth and the moon fixed to each other?"

Astronomer: "Gravity, the moon orbits around the earth, or rather, the center of mass between the earth and the moon, its just an orbit"

Philosopher: "Then what does your earth orbit?"

Astronomer: "The center of the solar system."

Philosopher: "And the solar system?"

Astronomer: "The center of the galaxy!"

Philosopher: "And where does it end, what is at the end of this logic"

Astronomer with a defeated look on his face: "Its orbits, just orbits... It.. is... orbits, all the way down."

::Philosopher smiles::

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@freemo @Science lost me at turtles all the way down. Lol

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down

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@freemo @Science That's great and all but gravity can be measured, while these turtles cannot.

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Yea the point here isnt that gravity is as valid as a world turtle. The point in my eyes is more so that for all the absurdity the ideas of old may have, and summarily dismissed on their absurdity. The real world has notions that appear just as absurd (albeit with stronger evidence however).

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