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Flat Earth Theory / My conclusion.
« on: September 23, 2016, 05:00:01 PM »
Hello All,
I've spent the better part of four days on this site and the wiki. I'm what here is referred to as a "round earther". But, I'm also an objective thinker and will always entertain opposing views, so I find myself here.
My conclusion relating to the flat earth theory is that it is some form of complete denial of reality. Although I'm certainly no scientist, I am very well educated and excel in thinking critically so I've had no problems understanding the proofs submitted by those supporting the flat earth theory. At best, they're flawed science and in most cases are intentionally obtuse and/or blatantly fabricated. Conversely, there are innumerable methods and proofs that can easily be used to support the fact that the earth is round. These are commonly dismissed as conspiratorial while the simplest of tests (just walking up to a telescope and looking around) are explained away with pseudo-scientific responses that are completely unsupported by any true scientific method (the heavily leaned on perspective argument is laughable at best and the dime and elephant analogy actually made me laugh out loud at one point).
I've spent a good deal of time wondering what motivation would cause someone to deny a reality that is incontrovertibly proven, and I must admit that I'm baffled by this. There doesn't appear to be any personal gain in claiming a flat earth yet it is held by some with a fervor that I can only compare to religious zeal.
On the wiki there is a section called Occam's Razor, I'm sure everyone here knows the principle. In that section there is a question: "What's the simplest explanation; that when I look up and see the sun slowly move across the sky over the course of the day, that the globe earth is spinning at over a thousand miles per hour - faster than the speed of sound at the equator - despite me being unable able to feel this centripetal acceleration, or is the simplest explanation that the sun itself is just moving across the sky exactly as I have observed?"
I would ask: What's the simplest explanation: That all of the governments and now most of the private corporations of the world are spending trillions of dollars to maintain a hoax and of the hundreds of thousands of people involved in this cover up, not a single person has leaked so much as a single document/photo/video outing the conspiracy, or that the earth really is round as almost all of our technology, science and day to day function relies on?
I've spent the better part of four days on this site and the wiki. I'm what here is referred to as a "round earther". But, I'm also an objective thinker and will always entertain opposing views, so I find myself here.
My conclusion relating to the flat earth theory is that it is some form of complete denial of reality. Although I'm certainly no scientist, I am very well educated and excel in thinking critically so I've had no problems understanding the proofs submitted by those supporting the flat earth theory. At best, they're flawed science and in most cases are intentionally obtuse and/or blatantly fabricated. Conversely, there are innumerable methods and proofs that can easily be used to support the fact that the earth is round. These are commonly dismissed as conspiratorial while the simplest of tests (just walking up to a telescope and looking around) are explained away with pseudo-scientific responses that are completely unsupported by any true scientific method (the heavily leaned on perspective argument is laughable at best and the dime and elephant analogy actually made me laugh out loud at one point).
I've spent a good deal of time wondering what motivation would cause someone to deny a reality that is incontrovertibly proven, and I must admit that I'm baffled by this. There doesn't appear to be any personal gain in claiming a flat earth yet it is held by some with a fervor that I can only compare to religious zeal.
On the wiki there is a section called Occam's Razor, I'm sure everyone here knows the principle. In that section there is a question: "What's the simplest explanation; that when I look up and see the sun slowly move across the sky over the course of the day, that the globe earth is spinning at over a thousand miles per hour - faster than the speed of sound at the equator - despite me being unable able to feel this centripetal acceleration, or is the simplest explanation that the sun itself is just moving across the sky exactly as I have observed?"
I would ask: What's the simplest explanation: That all of the governments and now most of the private corporations of the world are spending trillions of dollars to maintain a hoax and of the hundreds of thousands of people involved in this cover up, not a single person has leaked so much as a single document/photo/video outing the conspiracy, or that the earth really is round as almost all of our technology, science and day to day function relies on?