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Re: How do Flat Earthers explain an Eclipse
« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2017, 03:11:22 PM »
Stop trying to justify a flat earth, it's not real.
Stop denying Catholic teaching and promoting heresy. 

Re: How do Flat Earthers explain an Eclipse
« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2017, 03:30:10 PM »
Stop denying Catholic teaching and promoting heresy.
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Re: How do Flat Earthers explain an Eclipse
« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2017, 03:32:38 PM »
The eclipse can only occur on the flat earth. It impossible to view an eclipse on a globe spinning 1000 mph and jetting around the sun at 67,000 mph and orbiting the galaxy at 550,000 mph and jetting out from the Big Bang at 1,000,000 mph. Everything would be a blur.  Globe earth barreling 4 different directions, 4 different speeds is the official NASA mantra.  As Enoch explains, the earth is stationary with the sun and moon traversing across the plane and every so often, the two pass each other.  Being the same size, the moon and sun can eclipse each other as they pass at these times. Eclipses are fairly common, although its been 38 years since a full eclipse of the sun occurred over the US.        
If the moon and sun are both spinning around over the earth, wouldn't an eclipse occur every day or so?

Re: How do Flat Earthers explain an Eclipse
« Reply #8 on: August 21, 2017, 04:26:40 PM »
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Debating children is not worth my time.

Re: How do Flat Earthers explain an Eclipse?
« Reply #9 on: August 21, 2017, 06:00:00 PM »
Given the occasion of today's rare solar eclipse, I thought I'd ask the flat earthers how an eclipse occurs in their model of the world.

CathInfo's flat-Earthers have had plenty of time to prepare themselves for today's eclipse, which was announced to them, seeking some credible response, at least as early as July 11 (i.e., #737: the 3rd reply-posting on page 50) of the much-longer but still active topic "50 Plus Reasons The Earth Is Not Flat"[×].  A quick glance will show that the topic has now extended to page 62; at 15 postings on each page generated for CathInfo members, the latest posting is #919.

This past week, the full moon has been very low in the sky compared to the sun. [....]  Since there is a total solar eclipse coming next month, [....] there will have to be a dramatic change in these alignments during the next month in order for the eclipse to occur.

This eclipse (like all eclipses of the sun) will occur on a New Moon.  That will be when the moon crosses the sky during the daytime.  The moon is very difficult to see when it's a new moon, since the brightness of the sun in our atmosphere obscures the moon especially when it is close to the sun.  Most people watching a solar eclipse have no idea where the moon is until it starts to move across the visible disc of the sun.

The responses from the flat-Earthers, who have made a habit of self-righteously denying simple observations that can be made by alert adolescents with ordinary skills of observation, using low-tech or common analog technology, have not yet provided any explanations that are both literally
·  credible for a flat Earth, but
·  incredible for an approximately spherical Earth.

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Note ×: "50 Plus Reasons The Earth Is Not Flat", page 50: <https://www.cathinfo.com/fighting-errors-in-the-modern-world/50-plus-reasons-the-earth-is-not-flat/735/>.