A majority of the Fathers (if that is in fact the case) is not the same as the Fathers speaking unanimously.  There is no authority given to things for being the majority view.  Your entire argument rests on a false premise.  And there is no "mounting evidence" for flat earth.  

Nor is there a "powerful argument from Tradition".  Tradition involves beliefs and practices handed down from one generation to the next, not ideas that disappear for 1300 years.  When something that has been gone for this long gets artificially pulled out from the past that is the error of archeologism - you know, the one used to justify Communion in the hand.

More of the same from Jaynek, always dismissing what is, for what isn't.  Evidence for flat earth coming from Saints and Fathers piles up daily, with no end in sight, forcing to me to do two volumes.  Others will enjoy the pearls of wisdom from the Fathers of the Church, while you cling to the unanimity of Fathers who did not teach that earth is a globe based on Scripture.

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There is no evidence of "flat" earth to be found anywhere, and that includes from the saints.
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Lol

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We can see it in the south
We can see it in the north
We can take what we can see
And from there we can go forth
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Eclipses tell us much
And the moon can tell us more
What we see above the beach
We can see above the shore
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We can see it from up close
We can see it far away
And the more that we do look
Then the more that we can say
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A globe is round, you see, 
And the earth is rounder still
No more round there would be found
Would we look beyond the hill
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The moon rises in the east
And it sets out in the west
As the sun across the sky
So the moon completes the quest
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When the moon is new it hides
And for us it's hard to see
But for special tools at hand
We can use most tranquilly
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While the moon is not so fast
Tho' by far it's close to us
Then the sun which passes by
Casts moon's shadow onto us
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Or when the round, round earth 
Passed between the sun and moon
We get to see our shadow there
Looking like a spoon
;D

Perhaps when Neil is done waxing long on poetry, he'll explain why the FAA uses flat earth modeling.  Oh, yea.  Its simpler.  


From Edward Hendrie's  The Greatest Lie on Earth: Proof That Our World is Not a Moving Globe.


An FAA publication explains that in order for software to accurately replicate the behavior of aircraft during flight over the earth, the software running the TGF simulator assumes that the earth is flat:

"The observant reader will notice that the aircraft equations of motion were calculated assuming a flat earth and that we here assume the development frame was the NorthEast-Down frame. This implies necessarily that earth rotation and the variation of the gravity vector with position over the earth were ignored in developing the aircraft equations of motion.  This simplification limits our mathematical model to the flight of aircraft only. The model will not properly handle the flight of sub-orbital craft and spacecraft such as intercontinental ballistic missiles, satellites, or the space shuttle.  The model is adequate for all vehicles traveling under Mach 3."


The only way the FAA can or would assume flat earth for training pilots as this software does, it would have to be very accurate.  It is a ridiculous assumption to suggest that their software could simulate using flat earth models when their pilots will be flying over a globe.   Notice they really do not say that the model is actually inaccurate for vehicles traveling more than Mach 3.


Only a frantic globie would even attempt to explain or justify this. Guess the pilots must be told something when they see the flat earth simulator software. This is the FAA's twisted response.  

 

If anyone has read about the difficulties of translating a globe map to a flat one, they'd know instantly that the FAAs explanation for using flat earth software is garbage.

Keep your day job. Can't respond. Poetry sucks.

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The Bible doesn't need your false-god, golden-calf, flat-earthism for veracity.
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The Bible has the Church, and flat-earthism has NOTHING.
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Actually Neil there's little debate amongst scholars of ancient literature that The Bible depicts a Flat and Stationary Earth, with a hard or "firm" dome, with relatively small celestial objects like The Stars and The Sun orbiting it in what Ancient Hebrews called, "The Firmament."  

Furthermore, The Catholic Church has TRADITIONALLY held to a Literal Interpretation of The Scripture.
 
So, accepting The Globe Earth and a Heliocentric Universe/Solar System has forced The Church into a very awkward position and extremely weakened its credibility in all areas of Western Thought.  I mean, if God can't tell The Church something so basic as your home is rocketing around a big massive Sun, but instead tells The Church that the Earth is stationary and unmoving, while also telling Us that we'd all better not miss church on Sundays and we'd better give lots of money to Priests, then this God, would rightly so, seem suspicious (like he was more interested in power and wealth, than in truth since he would appear to not have any truth, in other words, he would appear to have been made up by Old Men, trying to control other Men, Women and Children, with a fairy tale that not surprisingly gave those very same Old Men lots of wealth and power.  

So yes Neil, The Church does need Flat Earth in its War on Modernism.  

We can see it high
We can see it low
We can see it there,
Everywhere we go.

So Neil has finally cracked.  I was wondering how long it would take.