if you are trying to convince people the Earth is round you are doing a terrible job.
People Still Believe The Planet Is Flat
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I don't prescribe to the idea that anyone still sincerely believes the Earth is flat, so any generalizations about this is just manufactured prejudice or baseless accusation against someone, some group or groups of people. But if anyone does still sincerely believe the Earth is flat, it's magical-thinking bible-thumping fundamentalist creationists who believe the Earth is 6000 years old. i.e., Republicans.
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I don't know. Woolly thinking might convince them where reason failed, or maybe it would get their baloney detectors going (which might ultimately have the same effect).
Neither one has four right angles. If they were just flat round discs, then they would appear ellipsoid to varying degrees depending on the viewing angle, but never rectangular.
Kor
Neither one has four right angles. If they were just flat round discs, then they would appear ellipsoid to varying degrees depending on the viewing angle, but never rectangular.
Kor
remark - A disk viewed edge-on is a line segment, which is a degenerate rectangle having at least one side of zero length.
It did hatch once a release a giant space monster, but Superman took care of it for us.I thought the moon was a giant egg.
I wish I could say that discovering someone believed the world was flat would surprise me. I WISH I could say that. However, I have become inured to the inveterate stupidity of my fellow Americans.
At least the thread was fun
Round steering wheels would still make sense on a flat Earth, and as others have mentioned a disk is both flat and round; Flat Earthers tend to believe either that the Earth is disk-shaped and with an edge that you can fall off, or that it is infinite in all directions.
With that being said, with regards to comparing the Moon and the Earth:
A pretty central part of many Flat Earthers' beliefs is that the Earth is unique in the cosmos. Based on what I've seen, a belief in a Flat Earth all but requires that you believe in a creator deity, who set the Earth apart from all other things in the Cosmos. Many (but certainly not all) Flat Earthers accept that the Moon and/or Sun and/or planets are spherical, but to them that is not relevant, because the bodies which inhabit the celestial dome are of a completely different nature than the world on which we live.
I am certainly not advocating this view, but it's something that needs to be remembered when discussing Flat Earthism.
With that being said, with regards to comparing the Moon and the Earth:
A pretty central part of many Flat Earthers' beliefs is that the Earth is unique in the cosmos. Based on what I've seen, a belief in a Flat Earth all but requires that you believe in a creator deity, who set the Earth apart from all other things in the Cosmos. Many (but certainly not all) Flat Earthers accept that the Moon and/or Sun and/or planets are spherical, but to them that is not relevant, because the bodies which inhabit the celestial dome are of a completely different nature than the world on which we live.
I am certainly not advocating this view, but it's something that needs to be remembered when discussing Flat Earthism.
Yeah, I am far more disturbed by the fact that over 40% of Americans believe God created humans in our present form around 10,000 years ago. That's millions and millions of people.
Anyone else amused by the fact that Magellan just weighed in on the topic? I mean, if you wanted someone to debunk the Flat Earth nonsense, he'd be your guy, right? 
Speaking as a four dimensional being, I can attest that the world is, in fact, flat.
I thought they said 6000 years ago the Earth was made. That's an aweful short length of time isn't it?
I thought we were all riding around on top of a giant turtle? Didn't I hear that someplace?
Look, God took his sweet time getting us here. Don't ask what was going on in the meantime. There's a reason they didn't put that in the Bible.
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