Doctors still proscribe opioids and cocaine, the difference is mostly things like how shelf stable the compounds are not what they do or how addictive they are. Hellenistic astronomers got a roughly accurate calculation for the size of the earth in 3rd century BC, it’s spherical nature was deduced much earlier. Flat earth didn’t become popular due to scientific investigation but a complete lack of it, just as people on the internet still promote it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes
Christianity has multiple times completely changed how they viewed Jesus let alone less foundational aspects of the faith. Read up on the First Council of Nicaea and similar such events, or ask the Vatican how old the earth is.
> let alone less foundational aspects of the faith.
God himself seems to have changed around the time of Jesus, with a really elaborate justification to make sense of it, based on very little that's actually in the Bible:
Yes, swapped ‘like’ for ‘and’ as I realized it wasn’t clear what I meant.
I meant Numbrino (Cocaine hydrochloride) which was approved in 2020 is used in place of Cocaine the same way Hydromorphone etc is used in pace of Morphine. Cocaine is a useful topical numbing agent, but tweaking it slightly is beneficial.
Christianity has multiple times completely changed how they viewed Jesus let alone less foundational aspects of the faith. Read up on the First Council of Nicaea and similar such events, or ask the Vatican how old the earth is.