Reply #239: It was widely believed by those

[Donkeyboy75]

who were learned in Galileo's time that the earth was round. In fact, it had been known since the ancient Greek times.

Scientists didn't grow angry at the questions being asked. The church did. Read a history book, then learn about science. Wildly abandoning the fundamentals of physics, then lending creedence to crackpot theories ain't science. It's the other side of the coin.