Columbus vs. Present

Is our way of knowing greater than that of Columbus' era? Yes but this is due to our advancement in technology and globalized society. With the launching of numerous satellites and our worldwide connection of computers, we have managed to establish perfect communication with all parts of the globe. The impact of technology has also served to recharter the perspectives of Columbus himself including his fundamental beliefs.
Since the internet has allowed the uploading of numerous documents online, we've been permitted the ability to access all of Columbus' journal entries. In one of Columbus' entries, he mentions how he believed in serpents and supernatural creatures. Today, we've become skeptical of these claims because our technology has revealed no evidence of their existence. Take the story of the Kraken; Norwegian explorers wrote of this gigantic octopus-like creature that attacked ships that interrupted its sleep. Their accounts were ignored but after years of scientific marine exploration, their accounts were verified as true for there was such a creature only it wasn't an octopus but a giant squid who attacks ships because it misinterprets them for its natural enemy the sperm whale. How did we end this mythology? None other than finding physical evidence (ex. remains of giant squid that washed up on shore) and the use of technology to find the creature's location (in this case the use of sonar, which sperm whales use to locate the squid, was able to locate the mysterious squid that lived in the depths of the sea). Satellites and sonar act in the same manner as echolocation is used by bats; as a species that is limited to land, we cannot explore the barriers of the oceans and Space and so we rely on updated technology to validate our scientific claims and knowledge.