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Author Topic: How does "flat-earthism" defame Church, providing material for ridicule thereof?  (Read 4248 times)

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The vast majority of contributions from flat-earthers are chock full of grammatical/punctuation errors and bad syntax.
Maybe they're just no good at English, but it really gives them the appearance of being addled.
It would seem they're trying to give a bad impression of flat-earthism, but apparently they're just doing what comes naturally!
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Vasu Patel, studied at Institute Of Technology, Nirma University  (Profile says, "fond of everything" Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India)
Updated Nov 25, 2017


Originally Answered: Is the earth flat or round?

Ofcourse it is flat.
Who are these all astrophysicist and scientists, we dont have to believe all they say.
You know what lets try that ourselves.
Go outside on a barren-land. Look at the horizon. The horizon is always near equal to 4km away.
So this concluded that where ever you walk there is a flat disk of 4km radius. The whole concept of earth is sphere is all B.S.
(I MEAN COM’ ON)
There is certainly secretive ,till-not-disclosed answer of all these G.P.S satellites and I.S.S floating above our head, night and day. I mean there must be some political associated scams.
Thank you.

It's sort of funny that you believe God's Creation defames His Church. 

Ironic.


It's sort of funny that you believe God's Creation defames His Church.

Ironic.
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It's rather the mockery flattardom makes of God's creation and its blasphemy that defames the Church.
I realize the concept is too difficult for a falt-earthdown-syndromer like yourself to grasp.
Maybe you could go help your fellow flat-earthdown-syndromer in India, Vasu Patel!
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Smugley Butthead realizes helping his buddy
in India will interrupt his viewing of South Park.

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Here is Anirban Samanta, explaining why he thinks flat-earthers belong to the "religion of stupid."
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Why can't physicists disprove the Flat Earth theory contention?
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Anirban Samanta, studied Electrical Engineering & Physics at University of California, Davis
Answered Jun 1

Let’s assume, solely for the sake of argument, that it may be a valid theory contention. All theories contentions, no matter who proposed them and no matter how elegant, are invalid if observational data cannot support it. Since the beginning of the space age we have direct photographic evidence, (we have had observational evidence for hundreds if not thousands of years) to prove that the earth is not flat.

The flat-earth theory contention, in appealing to the public, hinges on the allegation that NASA, Roscosmos, ESA, JAXA and all other space agencies are peddling a global hoax. If you believe a theory contention blindly and call conspiracy on any proof to the contrary, then such a theory contention CANNOT be disproved, until such a day that the realization comes to you. That is the power of faith - which is why I consider the flat-earthers a religion of stupid unto itself.

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Michael Wilton, Research, experimentation & physical evidence for 30+ years
Answered Sat

Your question is based on a closed-minded precept, and as such should be rephrased to something in the order of, “Why can’t physicists disprove the flat earth TO A FLAT EARTH BELIEVER?”

The answer to the (reformed) question posed is actually simple, but I would wager not what you want to hear … They can, and they have on countless occasions, going all the way back to the ‘sticks and shadows’ experiment thousands of years ago.

The problem arises when the flat earth believers refuse (a choice based on faith rather than logic and facts) to believe the evidence, and furthermore refuse to perform experiments of the scope needed to detect the curvature preferring to stick with their fallacious ‘the horizon looks straight therefore the earth is flat’ argument. Of course we all know that using such a small scale assumption is highly inaccurate, like looking at one person in a town of 1000 and declaring that everyone in that town has blue eyes.

So the short answer to your question would be a further question … Why do flat earth believers refuse to accept the evidence provided, or prove it wrong through real experimentation?


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Note: Michael Wilton (who is likely from England, but his profile doesn't say!) fails to recognize that the 'sticks and shadows' experiment of Eratosthenes and others, presumes from the start that the rays coming from the sun are parallel and that the sun is a great distance away from earth, such as hundreds of thousands of miles (or more). As such, "the 'sticks and shadows' experiment thousands of years ago" all by itself, does not "disprove the flat earth." Therefore, his "simple answer" is simply wrong.

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Why can't physicists disprove the Flat Earth theory contention?

Gunter Krebs, Dipl. Phys Atomic Physics, Goethe University, Frankfurt (1998 )
Answered May 20


The question (as "theory") is not answerable - as scientists can simply and easily disprove that the earth is flat - and they have done it already many centuries ago.

In fact, scientists work today on the details, how earth slightly deviates from the perfect spherical shape. But the basic spherical shape is a rock solid fact with no reasonable doubts.

And by the way, there is no “Flat Earth Theory,” as the flat earth doesn't even have theory status, as it contradicts all observations.

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(Note: this contribution by Gunter Krebs does not strictly belong to this thread since it makes no accusations regarding religion, however, it does a very good job of explaining why there is no "theory" of flat-earthism, and therefore, physicists have no "theory" of flat-earthism to disprove. The question of "flat" earth has been settled long ago. For there to be a "theory" to disprove, the question would have to still be open for discussion. The questions still under consideration by physicists are the details of precisely how the real earth deviates from various idealized generalizations such as any of the many ellipsoids that have been proposed over the recent centuries.)