Flat earth, seriously?

[Esaias]

Originally Posted by KeptByTheWord

I am not a scientist, nor have I traveled into the universe to see if the earth is round or not, so how else should I believe what has been told to me, and shown through pictures? Just wondering... have you? ....

Have I what? I have - and continue to - investigate claims concerning cosmology. I currently believe the earth is spheroid in a geocentric universe. Flat earthism raises interesting points but is not complete or consistent in certain necessary areas.

Spheroidal cosmology also has problems, though. Which makes it all the more interesting. The subject, I mean.

[shazeep]

FE seems to have undergone a recent morph. I investigated them several years ago, and their views did not seem to be near as literal as they are now; they were more like a perspective shift.

[votivesoul]

Originally Posted by Esaias

Caveat: I am NOT a flat earther.

However, having said that, I do not think you understand the flat earth model.

What's to understand? The earth, to them, is a plane or disk, i.e. flat. How hard is it to understand what flat means.

All anyone has to do is take a quick Google image search and see what they are espousing.

And as such, such an espousal would mean the shortest distance between two points on a flat plane is a straight line. That's basic geometry.

The shortest distance between two points on a globe is a curved line, or parabola.

That's also basic math.

This is the common image:



On such a model, the shortest distant from say Vancouver, Canada to Beijing, China, would be a straight line.

But that's the not the case in real life. See here:

[Esaias]

What is the shortest distance from Tazmania to Chile?

Anyways, the "curved flight path" argument is regularly dealt with by FE advocates. A look at an FE map would show that "straight flight paths" take basically the same path on both models.

Your comment about the oceans spilling off the edges was pretty indicative to me you were not very familiar with FE models.

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by CC1

Like This?

No, like a pancake, almost like a hammer head shark flat.

[Esaias]

north pole new path proves the Flat Earth:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21qrcEVHuzo

[Disciple4life]

Ok all you "the bible is literal in every single way". Time to be consistent.

The rest of you are flat earth truthers! Ha! Ha!

[Esaias]

Brother Blume, tell your friend you are waiting for him to evolve to concave earth theory. That'll liven the discussions up a bit.

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by Esaias

Brother Blume, tell your friend you are waiting for him to evolve to concave earth theory. That'll liven the discussions up a bit.

No the guy will probably go into hollow earth theory first.

[Esaias]

Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa

No the guy will probably go into hollow earth theory first.

Its the same thing.