Throughout history, there has been many social revolutions changing the way people live in and think about this world.
Humans use to think that the sun revolved around the Earth and that the Earth was flat.
The sun only appears to revolve around the Earth because we see it every day move from the east horizon to the west horizon. The Earth only appears flat to us because of our limited perspective. Changes in these beliefs led to major revelations about how we view ourselves and our role in the cosmos. This led to changes in the way people lead their day to day lives. As people realized that we were not the center of the Universe, they reevaluated their religious beliefs.