If many people think something is true,, is it true? Regarding this question, I would have to disagree. Why?
Now, something that is true is something being in accordance with the actual state or conditions; conforming to reality or fact. Thus, the opinions people have is not a factor in deciding in whether something is true or false. Even if they insist that they are right, you just have to find that shred of evidence that has been there all along to prove them wrong. The same went with the Church a long time ago. The event that I am talking about is Genesis.

For countless years, the church influenced the people’s thinking. In, fact, I would say the church pretty much controlled most thoughts of their countrymen. People at that time were religious and thus believed what the priests, the fathers and the nuns told them. For many years, people thought that Genesis was God’s doing. “1:3- And God said, let there be light: and there was light”. However, science proved that Genesis was a scientific event and not some creation of a holy being. The church said the earth was in the center of the universe; science proved that earth was just any ordinary small planet. These and other related events fueled the hatred between the church and science. Science hated the church for lying to the people and not accepting the truth; the church hated science or putting them in a bad light.
And there was La Purga. In 1668, the church branded four scientists with the cross to “purge their sins”. They were quite well-known scientists who tested many of the things the church had been saying for years. After the branding, the church dumped the bodies on the streets of Rome, as a warning for people not to join these scientists. Even though the church had many means of getting their way, the truth is, a fact is a fact. It EXISTS there. A fact exists indefinitely. It is not a believe, it is something that cannot be changed. For example, Job 37:18 says the heavens are hard like a meal mirror. “With him can you beat out the skies hard like a molten mirror? (New English Bible)”; Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a heavy metal mirror? ( King James)”. But science has proved that the sky is immaterial and even clouds(which are matter) are so soft they can be passed through by airplanes. And with spaceships flying out to space for missions all the time, what has happened to that heavy metal mirror? Thus, a fact is something that exists indefinitely; it is just waiting to be found out. Nothing can change a fact, not even the most influential people. Even if Barack Obama were to say the sky is a heavy metal mirror, science and common knowledge will prove him wrong straightaway. Hence, a fact is a basic law of life and cannot be changed.