Flat Earthers

[Sarmatian]

Messing around on youtube, looking at some popular science videos, I've been recommended quite a number of videos that "prove" Earth is flat.

So, I've done a bit of research (as you do) and found out that there are probably tens of thousand of people who believe Earth is flat. Not illiterate people, but people who spent at least some time in school. And it's not even "the Bible tells us so" (although I assume that's the driving force)! There's a whole pseudo science about it. Internet sites, blogs, forums, youtube videos,

As a human race, do we really deserve to live or should someone put us all out of our misery?

[Legs]

All creationists due to their belief that the bible is infallible and must be taken literally must be flat earthers...or else they are just hypocrits

[Kralizec]

I've heard about them before, but I always assumed that it was some sort of parody like the Pastafarian church.

[Husar]

I'm not sure where the bible says anything about the curvature of earth, but that aside, it is obviously a valid opinion and might be true as long as we can't prove it wrong beyond a reasonable doubt. And "photos from space" don't count, the people who made them could be biased!

[Legs]

I'm not sure where the bible says anything about the curvature of earth, but that aside, it is obviously a valid opinion and might be true as long as we can't prove it wrong beyond a reasonable doubt. And "photos from space" don't count, the people who made them could be biased!

Its an immovable plain built on foundations and covered by a bowl, the celestial bodies are attatched to the bowl.
This was proven as scientific fact during the inquisition because the bible cannot be wrong.

[Montmorency]

Its an immovable plain built on foundations and covered by a bowl, the celestial bodies are attatched to the bowl.
This was proven as scientific fact during the inquisition because the bible cannot be wrong.

That sounds closer to ancient Chinese tradition than anything in the Bible.

[Husar]

Close.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Turtle
http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Great_A'Tuin

[Legs]

That sounds closer to ancient Chinese tradition than anything in the Bible.

Maybe they borrowed it from the chinese when they wrote the book.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Its an immovable plain built on foundations and covered by a bowl, the celestial bodies are attatched to the bowl.
This was proven as scientific fact during the inquisition because the bible cannot be wrong.

I... just.

OK, look. Christian flat-Earthers are a modern thing. The concept of a Flat Earth had been pretty much thrown out by about 300 BC based on the observation of the curvature of the Earth. Initially the Greeks believed the Earth was a Cylinder until they went far enough North to realise it was a sphere. I'm sure there were peasants in the medieval period who believed the Earth was flat, but they likely only travelled a few miles from their village. All educated people understood it was a sphere.

People didn't believe Columbus would fall off the edge of the Earth they, accurately, believed his crews would starve before he circumnavigated the Earth and reached India. It was his dumb luck that he hit land that far South before he hit India, or rather before his crew had to resort to eating each other.

Flat-Earthers today are part of the anti-intellectual conspiracy movement, which is why they're concentrated in the US - people who glory in being ignorant because knowledge is a lie perpetuated by the "Elite" who are controled by Jewish bankers/Lizardmen/Aliens.

[Legs]

I... just.

OK, look. Christian flat-Earthers are a modern thing. The concept of a Flat Earth had been pretty much thrown out by about 300 BC based on the observation of the curvature of the Earth. Initially the Greeks believed the Earth was a Cylinder until they went far enough North to realise it was a sphere. I'm sure there were peasants in the medieval period who believed the Earth was flat, but they likely only travelled a few miles from their village. All educated people understood it was a sphere.

People didn't believe Columbus would fall off the edge of the Earth they, accurately, believed his crews would starve before he circumnavigated the Earth and reached India. It was his dumb luck that he hit land that far South before he hit India, or rather before his crew had to resort to eating each other.

Flat-Earthers today are part of the anti-intellectual conspiracy movement, which is why they're concentrated in the US - people who glory in being ignorant because knowledge is a lie perpetuated by the "Elite" who are controled by Jewish bankers/Lizardmen/Aliens.

So christians don't believe in the bible then.
British 19th century flat earthers cited passages stretching from Genesis to Revelation to support their views.
Are you familiar with the word "raqia" and its place in biblical cosmology?

[Vuk]

Messing around on youtube, looking at some popular science videos, I've been recommended quite a number of videos that "prove" Earth is flat.

So, I've done a bit of research (as you do) and found out that there are probably tens of thousand of people who believe Earth is flat. Not illiterate people, but people who spent at least some time in school. And it's not even "the Bible tells us so" (although I assume that's the driving force)! There's a whole pseudo science about it. Internet sites, blogs, forums, youtube videos,

As a human race, do we really deserve to live or should someone put us all out of our misery?

*cough*
http://blog.drwile.com/?p=12379

[spmetla]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5muY64Oyp10
Doesn't contribute to the discussion but still relevant.

...it's just the sort of thing that generally governments do...

[Legs]

*cough*
http://blog.drwile.com/?p=12379

A young earth cretin who believes in the infallible bible but doesn't believe in the infallible bible.
Thanks Vuk for pointing out a typical "christian" creationist hypocrit