Flat Earthers vs. Science vs. Common Sense

(Earth is the Centre of all Things)

At the beginning the Earth was the centre of the universe and the universe was quite small, a man changed all that.

Nicolaus Copernicus the man who changed mankind's universe with a single book.  The Earth is not fixed, the Sun doesn't revolve around the Earth but the other way round.  Remember my previous post ""...is based upon observable repeatable physical events..." well here is an man that did just that.

The Church didn't like this at because it went against what was written in the Bible (written by men I might point out) to give you some examples:

• Psalm 93:1, 96:10, and 1 Chronicles 16:30: "the world is firmly established, it cannot be moved."
• Psalm 104:5: "the Lord set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved."
• Ecclesiastes 1:5: "And the sun rises and sets and returns to its place"

Common sense tells us that the Sun moves and we don't, but you look through a telescope and map the movements of the planets your common sense tells you the real truth.  It is all about perspective, a man at the top of a tall tower will see an invading army that is true, the man at bottom sees nothing that is true.

The men that wrote the Bible were very limited in their perspectives.  Remember that when you take everything you read as the gospel truth.

Flat Earthers take it step further however, not only is the Earth the centre of the universe but it is not a sphere either.  They apply their limited perspective with science that is now two hundred years old  which they don't seem to have improved upon, the reasons for this are quite obvious.

They are not interested in change, they hide behind semantics like “the burden of proof”.  This is great within a court of law but completely useless in science.

To quote directly from their wiki: “.. that NASA has successfully designed and invented never before seen rocket technologies from scratch...”  I can only assume that either all the Flat Earthers died during World War 2 when the Doodlebugs and the V2 rockets bombed London or none of them lived in London and therefore their common sense tells them it didn't happen.

Simple Explanations is the Flat Earthers way, nothing is ever complicated.  Thing is many complex systems are made up of  many simple components, it is all down to your perspective again.

Another quote from their wiki:

“When I walk off the edge of a three foot drop off and go into free fall while observing the surface of the earth carefully the earth appears to accelerate up towards me. What's the simplest explanation; that there exists hypothetical undiscovered Graviton particles emanating from the earth which allows them to accelerate my body towards the surface through unexplained quantum effects; or is the simplest explanation that this mysterious highly theoretical mechanism does not exist and the earth has just accelerated upwards towards me exactly as I've observed?”

When I jump in the air I don't come down the Earth comes up?  When we are young we jump a lot, are children then the cause of earthquakes, as it rushes upwards.  Why does the Earth rush upwards?  

Not that simple is it? 

As they say 'The devil is in the details'.

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