Who is t o say that black is black and white is white, and who decided which way up the earth was?
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the first person who thought of it. This is a great question and the answers are priceless....white people HA! Everyone creates their own black and white. It all starts with an idea! :)
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My understanding is that the Creator organized his being from some huge pre-universal black hole from which The All spoke (Big Bang) and created Motion (the Creator).\n\nSince the Motion was outward and forward, thus positive, it was called He and Him.
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Belief in a flat Earth is found in humankind's oldest writings. In early Mesopotamian thought the world was portrayed as a flat disk floating in the ocean, and this forms the premise for early Greek maps like those of Anaximander and Hecataeus. This theory was clearly rejected after colombus's expedition.
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Black/White, Black/Latino
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i believe in evolution, and yes whites did come from blacks. think about this everybody agrees that the human race started in africa right. that means our pigment was damaged witch causes skin color. as we go to places like euorpe our pigment get less damaged so they repair and get lighter. thats how white people get tanned. im white bye the way. your pretty smart not one of my teachers would try to think about it. bye
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see white is a natural color all colors come from it and black is darkness .blind people can just make images by touching them,there structures so they just color there world with black and white.
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eratosthenes of cyrene (in what is now libya) was an ancient philosopher in the 3rd century BC.  he was able to measure the circumference of the earth and published his details in a treatise called 'on the measurement of the earth'.  the measurement was based on a geometrical argument and a measurement of shadows cast in different places, that assumed a round earth.\n\ni don't know if he was the -first-, but it's the earliest that i'm aware of and is often cited as the 'first'.  it is possible some other scientist had done the measurement earlier, and the results are simply lost in the dusts of time.
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Ha, good one!  The ancients belived that the sky was a solid dome (firmament), and the stars, planets, and sun were all attached to it and spun around on rails, or glass spheres.  This was, of course, proved wrong long ago by Copernicus and Galileo, the dawn of the space age only confirmed that their theories were true.
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In answer to the question "Are you red or green?" , everyone will say "I am green", the green natives because it is true, and the red natives because it is not true.  No one will say, "I am red."  So when the second native says, "He says he's green", that is a true statement, and thus the second native is green.  Then it follows that his second statement "He is green and so am I" is also true.  The explorer can be sure that both the natives are green.
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The first person who proposed that the Earth orbited the Sun was Aristarchus, about 300BC, but his writings have been lost. In 1530 Copernicus published his theory that the Earth orbits the Sun. In 1609 Galileo first used a telescope to view Jupiter's moons. In 1630 Galileo published a document upholding the Copernican system but was forced to recant his beliefs by the inquisition in 1633.
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Ancient civilizations knew this. Observations of lunar eclipses, plus the fact that the horizon is at equal distances no matter what direction we look made this pretty obvious. The earliest were probably the Assyrians or Babylonians, who developed the first coherent astronomical systems (claims by people that the natives of India were first notwithstanding)\n\nThe issue was not the shape of the earth, but its size, and its place in the scheme of things (at the center or off to the side.) It took thousands of years to displace the earth conceptually from the center of creation to a planet orbiting a star, which was then displaced from the center of the universe to a position in an outlying arm of our galaxy, which itself was displaced from being the entire universe to being the largest galaxy and at the center of the universe to being just another galaxy among billions. So we're just a bunch of hicks from the sticks.
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1. White because he would be at the North pole.\n2. I'm bad at math.
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anthropologist describe three distinct races...Caucasoid, Negroid, and Mongoloid..when discussing the origin of man.   Is that what you are asking?
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It's science, not God.  If you want to say God did it, say God invented science and everything, thus the sky is blue.\n\nHe didn't paint it blue, that's retarded.
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Mark Twain...  anyone from the South would probably be able to answer that question.\n\nOh, and I don't really think anyone believes the points thing...  :)
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The sky is anything above the ground, it is only air. \n\nGod has always been there he was not created, he was the creator.
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The ancient greeks knew the earth was round.  They knew it because they watched ships sail off.  Someone with good eyes could see that the ship was going over the horizon, the bottom of the ship dissappeared first.  Also, they knew that an eclipse of the moon showed the shadow of the earth on the moon.  Erastothenes calculated the diameter of the earth in about 200 bc.  He was accurate to about 3%.