• ReaderTunesOctopus@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    100
    ·
    9 months ago

    Check out the history of bird migration science. There was everything from birds going to the moon for winter, swallows burrowing in the mud, transmorphing to different species, up to the 19th century

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      9 months ago

      Add to that where people thought bugs and vermin come from. Obviously they spring fully formed for dirt and muck. Even rats come from rotting grain.

      • ReaderTunesOctopus@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        9 months ago

        Sounds stupid, but not worse than tiny animals in your blood making you sick (germ theory), or basically anything from cosmology from the Big Bang to dark energy