This is Rip Off UK wrote:
> As you said... Until the Europeans discovered it, it was ALWAYS
> there, so how do you discover something that's already there ?
> .
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 21:20:07 +0100, "Gordon Burgess-Parker"
> <me9@privacy.net> wrote:
>
>> 2560 wrote:
>>> So now do you really believe that Columbus discovered America? How
>>> do
>>> you discover a country where people are already living? Simple,
>>> distort the history, LOL
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Of course he discovered it you pillock - Europeans had no idea of its
>> existence until Columbus saw it. The ingdgenous peoples couldn't
>> discover it could they because they already lived there.
>>
>> Gravity has existed since the formation of the earth - no-one KNEW
>> about it until Newton "discovered" it.
>>
>> Prat.