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vixstile · 07-21-2003, 12:43 PM

I wouldn't surprise me if there really were some Flat Earthers around. Seeing as in how most people believe in something totally ridiculous, and will hold onto that belief in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, it wouldn't surprise me if there were a small group of people that believe in something totally, completely , and utterly ridiculous and absurd.

Division By Zero · 07-21-2003, 12:43 PM

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Originally posted by emotional
You can? Wow, this I gotta see!

Wish I had a link for you. They're very rare, but I've seen a few...

Pantera · 07-21-2003, 01:28 PM

A couple more links

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth_Society

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flatearth.html

Looking at the literature he produced, it seems that Charles Johnstone was seriously deranged...

GunnerJ · 07-21-2003, 02:35 PM

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There is a school of thought which states, however, that the Earth does not move through space, but rather that it rests on the back of a giant turtle, and that what we call gravity is, in fact, the turtle's animal magnetism.

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emotional · 07-21-2003, 03:02 PM

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Originally posted by vixstile
I wouldn't surprise me if there really were some Flat Earthers around. Seeing as in how most people believe in something totally ridiculous, and will hold onto that belief in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, it wouldn't surprise me if there were a small group of people that believe in something totally, completely , and utterly ridiculous and absurd.

Flat Earthers have Biblical support. They are more consistent than those picking-n-choosing creationists. They are the only true fundamentalists left in the world.

Believing in the flat earth is not that difficult. You chart a polar projection of the globe to make it a flat disc: the north pole is the centre. Magellan's ships going round the earth is explained by doing a circumnavigation of the flat plate - you get the same result of getting back where you started. As for the photos of a spherical earth from the moon, they are frauds.

Scientific Creationism, Geocentricity, and the Flat Earth

Spaz · 07-21-2003, 03:35 PM

Wouldn't that mean that to circumnavigate you'd have to be steering slightly to the left or right the entire time in order to go in a circle? Good thing Columbus did that or he would've smacked right into south america...

Warcraft3 · 07-21-2003, 03:43 PM

yeah the site is obviously a parody

Russ

emotional · 07-21-2003, 03:51 PM

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Originally posted by Spaz
Wouldn't that mean that to circumnavigate you'd have to be steering slightly to the left or right the entire time in order to go in a circle?

East and West on the flat earth is a tracing of a circle round the north pole, which is the centre. West is clockwise, East is counterclockwise. I don't know how that would work in actual navigation, though. I suppose the flat-earthers had a Zetetic Law of Perspective where navigating straight would make the circle. Occam, Occam, I know...

djmullen · 07-23-2003, 03:50 AM

Many years ago, I used to subscribe to the "Bible-Science News", published in Minneapolis by the Bible Science Association (BSA). It was weird, even for a YEC publication. From some scattered lines in several articles, I realized that they had had some "problems" in the past with some of their leading members. Turned out that they had broken off / gotten kicked out of the BSA and started their own organization. It was called the "Biblical Astronomy Association". What is Biblical Astronomy?

It turns out to be the belief that the earth is fixed and the Sun and planets revolve around it!

djmullen · 07-23-2003, 03:55 AM

Ohmygod! I googled for Biblical Astronomy Association and here they are: http://www.geocentricity.com/aboutgeocentricity.htm

Sample paragraph (from Why Geocentricity):

To hear tell, geocentrism, the ancient doctrine that the earth is fixed motionless at the center of the universe, died over four centuries ago. At that time Nicolaus Copernicus (picture below), a Polish canon who dabbled in astrology, claimed that the sun and not the earth was at the center of the universe. His idea is known as heliocentrism. It took a hundred years for heliocentrism to become the dominant opinion, and it did so with a complete lack of evidence in its favor.

07-23-2003, 03:50 AM	#19
djmullen Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Madison, WI, USA Posts: 97	Biblical Astronomy Many years ago, I used to subscribe to the "Bible-Science News", published in Minneapolis by the Bible Science Association (BSA). It was weird, even for a YEC publication. From some scattered lines in several articles, I realized that they had had some "problems" in the past with some of their leading members. Turned out that they had broken off / gotten kicked out of the BSA and started their own organization. It was called the "Biblical Astronomy Association". What is Biblical Astronomy? It turns out to be the belief that the earth is fixed and the Sun and planets revolve around it!

07-23-2003, 03:55 AM	#20
djmullen Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Madison, WI, USA Posts: 97	And here they are! Ohmygod! I googled for Biblical Astronomy Association and here they are: http://www.geocentricity.com/aboutgeocentricity.htm Sample paragraph (from Why Geocentricity): To hear tell, geocentrism, the ancient doctrine that the earth is fixed motionless at the center of the universe, died over four centuries ago. At that time Nicolaus Copernicus (picture below), a Polish canon who dabbled in astrology, claimed that the sun and not the earth was at the center of the universe. His idea is known as heliocentrism. It took a hundred years for heliocentrism to become the dominant opinion, and it did so with a complete lack of evidence in its favor.

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07-21-2003, 12:43 PM	#11
vixstile Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: California Posts: 2,029	I wouldn't surprise me if there really were some Flat Earthers around. Seeing as in how most people believe in something totally ridiculous, and will hold onto that belief in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, it wouldn't surprise me if there were a small group of people that believe in something totally, completely , and utterly ridiculous and absurd.

07-21-2003, 01:28 PM	#13
Pantera Veteran Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Cambridge, England, but a Scot at heart Posts: 2,431	A couple more links http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth_Society http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flatearth.html Looking at the literature he produced, it seems that Charles Johnstone was seriously deranged...

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Spaz Veteran Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: 6th Circle of Hell Posts: 1,093	Wouldn't that mean that to circumnavigate you'd have to be steering slightly to the left or right the entire time in order to go in a circle? Good thing Columbus did that or he would've smacked right into south america...

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Warcraft3 Regular Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: US Posts: 288	yeah the site is obviously a parody Russ

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