Was the Sun God a plausible explanation for what we saw in the sky, given the info available at the time?

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The Sun God getting into his fiery charriot and riding across the sky every day.  This is often looked upon as a stupid explanation.  But is it?  Go back to like the year 10 B.C., No internet.  No airplanes.  No telescopes.  No one has journeyed around the world.  The less information we have the more hypotheses fit the data.

michinoku2001 · Accepted Answer

Yes, the map is not the territory. Someday our present scientific/materialist theories may be considered laughable.  Look at how the  phlogiston theory was perfectly adequate for its own time. In fact; it met all the criterion of science, but was completely wrong by our present understanding.

Early agricultural societies had explanations of the sky that seems like nonsense to us today, but the fact is they did manage to get their crops in at the right time, etc., based on their body of knowledge.

Was the Sun God a plausible explanation for what we saw in the sky, given the info available at the time?

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