To believe that the Earth is flat is an act of personal faith that affirms ludicrous conspiracies (up to and perhaps including the non-existence of Australia), inane interpretations of natural phenomena, and outright mendacity. This is not my personal opinion or belief it is established science, repeatedly validated and affirmed in innumerable ways. I do not have some “elite intellectual agenda” that must be sustained, even at the cost of lying about the Earth’s shape, because doing so brings me some big bucks (!) and institutional security. I know that the Earth is almost spherical because of scientific endeavors carried on for over two thousand years. Each is fascinating and compels attention, like a car wreck.Īrguments for the flat Earth should insult the intelligence of any rational thinker.
In looking for good, simple proofs of the spherical Earth and in trying to find out how flat Earthers explain solar eclipses and hurricanes, I ran into a vast online array of texts and videos that argue for the flat Earth. My interest in the resurgent belief that the Earth is flat began in September 2015, when a student asked me how he might persuade a flat Earther friend that the Earth is in fact (almost) spherical.
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