(Jocelyn Bain Hogg for the Boston Globe) Christine Garwood, a lecturer at the Open University in England, said that "it's quite difficult, as science has become more complex, to explain the unbelievable."

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The true origins of flat-earth theory

By Peter Bebergal

September 28, 2008

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WHEN WE THINK of the idea of a flat earth, we think of ancient beliefs, medieval church doctrine, and a benighted assumption finally overturned by science. We don't think of it as an intellectual trend hatched in the 19th century. But maybe we should. (Full article: 996 words)