The belief that the Earth is really flat and that a shadowy world government techniques the public into thinking in a globe-shaped planet has been increasing in current times. Anybody would state that there suffices proof that the Earth is spherical. And versus all logic, there are more individuals who assert that our planet is in fact flat.

Christine Garwood, author of “Flat Earth: The Story of a Notorious Idea” declares that it is “a fallacy of history” that everybody from Antiquity to Darkness thought that Earth was flat and that they were just disillusioned with that “crazy idea “when Christopher Columbus prospered in reaching America” without falling on the edge of the world. “

“With amazing couple of exceptions, no informed individual in the history of Western civilization from the 3rd century onwards thought that the Earth was flat,” stated historian Jeffrey Burton Russell in 1997.

The eminent scientist Stephen Jay Gould wrote in the exact same year that “there was never a period of ‘flat earth obscurity’ among scholars. Greek understanding of sphericity never vanished and all middle ages scholars accepted the roundness of the Earth as an established reality of cosmology.

“The Church says that the Earth is flat, however I know it is round due to the fact that I saw its shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.”– Fernando de Magallanes (1480-1521).

With the rise of scientific rationalism, which appeared to weaken the authority of the Bible, some Christian thinkers chose to release an attack on established science. An English developer called Samuel Birley Rowbotham (1816-1884) assumed the pseudonym “Parallax” and founded the new school of “Zetetic Astronomy” (implying “skeptic”, from ancient Greek zētētikós, “inquisitive”).

Rowbotham explored England arguing that the Earth was a stationary disk and the Sun was only 400 miles away. In 1870, John Hampden, popular for leading polemics, discussed the Flat Earth and described Isaac Newton– the author of the theory of gravity– as “a drunk or a madman.”

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Hampden’s concepts, like those of lots of flat-earthers, were based on religious beliefs: many of the evidence of his theory originated from Holy Scriptures. Science and faith were confronted. All things aside, from religion to ancient huge understanding, the primary question here is why do some individuals still believe we live on a flat Earth?

There is adequate evidence to negate this theory. Not long ago we discussed A Ph.D. Student who had actually provided a thesis claiming that the Earth is FLAT, stationary, the center of the universe and just around 13,500 years of ages.

The thesis declined scientific theories presented by Newton and Einstein, astronomical discoveries made by Copernicus and Kepler, the Big Bang theory, atmospheric and geological activity, the majority of the modern-day meteorology, and generally all other clinical teachings made in the past.

The Flat Earth argument continues, so how do we end this debate at last? One Reddit user has created a rather interesting concept: Let’s make a truth program to ‘cure’ the Flat Earth issue– if obviously there is one. Reddit users suggested that a group of flat Earther’s need to be sent on an exploration where they attempt to discover the ‘edge’ of the World.

Those who back the Flat Earth theory are persuaded that it’s not possible to reach the ‘edge’ of the world due to the fact that the ‘end of the Earth’ is in reality blocked by a massive wall made up of Ice, which in turn is ‘guarded’ by the world’s military.

As Reddit users recommend, perhaps the group of Flat Earthers must be required to the North and South Pole, to see for themselves that it’s not flat and that there is no ‘edge’. Other users on social media suggest we ought to take a group of Flat Earthers into area, so they can see on their own that the Earth remains in reality round. That’s a more expensive option possibly.

Is Earth Actually Flat?

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