Well, the TFES certainly seems to regard Rowbotham as a prophet if not a "god", but no-one regards Newton or any other others as "gods".
Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, et al did not invent anything or make up anything. They simply discovered what was there. If they didn't someone else would have!
You know who did make up something? Einstein (or he plagiarized it, some say)
Relativity is the patchwork that covered up the holes in Newton, Kepler, and other natural philosopher's theories and "thought experiments."
Something not adding up? Dark Matter. Light bending? Black Holes. Want to really fuck with their heads? Let's create the space time continuum.
Fantasy bullshit made up to distract you from the flaws inherent in our concepts of the Universe. I'm beginning to think Einstein was contracted to create a concept to complex to question, in order to continue the status quo.
I have never yet seen anything that indicates the you have the slightest knowledge of the Flat Earth you purport to support.
You talk about
"Light bending?" On your flat earth model (you do have one?)
- at the time the sun is setting it is still 3,000 miles above the earth (about 20° if you want an angle!), yet we see the sun appearing to set behind the horizon! - BENDY LIGHT?
- An equinox is coming up (Mar 20). On that date the sun will be able to be seen to rise due east (90°) and set due west - everywhere![1] Yet on the accepted (?) flat earth, with the sun circling over the equator the sun would rise even north of NW (at about 36°) - BENDY LIGHT?
You worry about
"dark matter", but the Heliocentric Globe
does NOT rely on dark matter one little bit! Yes it is
hypothesized to explain galaxies "holding together"!
On the other hand the accepted Flat Earth
depends on "Dark Energy" to power its Universal Acceleration that provides its "simulated gravity". This hypothesis provides no explanation for measured variations in "g".
While the Globe uses
well proven gravitation[2] to provide genuine gravity that varies across the earth as explained by rotation and differing polar and equatorial radii and variation with altitude!
The "the flaws inherent in our concepts of the Universe" are simply flaws in your understanding of it. Don't blame Newton, Einstein or anyone else for your failings - go learn a bit about the Globe and more particularly about what alternatives there are! I do not see ANY that explain observations.
Yes, I know you won't consider any of this, but maybe someone else will see the fallacy of the Flat Earth model.
[1] Except right at the poles - they BOTH get 24 hour sunlight on the equinoxes -
explain THAT with you Flat Earth sun!
[2] See: "Henry Cavendish proved Newton's Gravitation"
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