Debunking flat Earth claims
Showing the Earth is a globe
When people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.
Highlighting that scientific models get increasingly precise over time.
So now we’re in the earth getting this angle are we Danny? Burning in the firey hells of the molten iron core to acquire this lying angle.
Nathan Oakley, Flat Earth Debate 1894.
Ignorant (willfully or otherwise) of the geometry of celestial navigation, Nathan has to misrepresent it’s basis in fact and reach for a snappy soundbite instead.
(more…)Flerf comment of the day, including spelling and grammar:
Its a fac regardles of Nathan saying it, all measurments of Earth are flat and require earth to be flat [sic].
And the excellent response:
(more…)The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the church.
Hitchens’s razor.
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence
