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Flat Earth Community / Re: Is this website a strange form of satire?
« on: January 04, 2015, 05:19:28 PM »I mean, I understand why you would be skeptical. But FET is a legitimate scientific theory. Have you ever seriously thought about why everyone thinks the Earth is round? Nobody has any real reason for believing it, they just sort of do. In reality, the idea that the Earth is round was popularized by Aristotle. Other notable theories by Aristotle are that women have fewer teeth than men (they don't), eels spontaneously appear out of mud (they don't), everything it made out of a combination of the 5 base elements (it isn't), and the sun rotates around the Earth (RET disagrees, FET agrees). He isn't known for his accuracy and he certainly wasn't a scientist. No one ever performed an experiment to prove the Earth was round. We all just kind of accepted it on blind faith. In fact, experiments consistently suggest that the Earth is flatHow about observations and measurements of sunrise and sunset at different times and places.
We don't claim that the sun doesn't rise and set, and we don't claim that time zones do not exist. We believe the earth is flat, because it is.