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I had a teacher in 6th grade who told us that God placed the earth the perfect distance from the Sun; a few inches closer and we'd all burn, and a few inches further and we'd all freeze. I got detention for standing on top of my desk and asking why I wasn't on fire yet.
That kinda shattered my view of teachers being arbiters of knowledge.
- Douglas Adams
"Oh no, not again"
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Was that Douglas Adams? I remember Richard Dawkins using that as an example. I always thought it was a really good analogy.
Yes, it was Douglas Adams, first published in The Salmon of Doubt.
he's out of line but he's right
I wish teachers like that actually learned from these experiences
The problem isn't teachers, it's that religion is a severe mental illness.
Also, that’s a specious argument because if the Earth wasn’t in the Goldilocks zone it would be a dead planet and we wouldn’t have evolved on it over billions of years to make the observation that it is the right distance from the Sun to harbour life.
The Earth's distance from the sun varies by as much as 3 million miles throughout our orbit, so they weren't just wrong, they were extremely wrong. It would take being around 10 million miles closer than our current closest distance before we'd notice a significant temperature change.