My whole life I've been a Christian. And it always vexed me how science classes have Christianity as playing a major role in people's obstinacy that the world was flat or that everything revolved around the earth. 

Today, though Don York's explanation, somewhere along history the church was highly influenced by Greek beliefs that created these false theories.  "Angels moved the Greek gods around the earth: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Pluto"

Growing up, it was really troubling hearing people blindly think that because the earth is spherical and revolves around the sun that somehow proves that Christianity is false. My whole life I've been reading the bible and not once have I come across things that suggests these theories. 

I am thankful that I was able to hear today's lecture