You are the most idiotic person I've seen on this board so far. Fighting the common enemy? Who is the enemy? Please, do not Bible-bash people who want to find out the truth. Any information regarding science from the Bible cannot be trusted, since the Bible is dogma, and because of this, there is no evidence presented to support the claims. Whatever claim is made is told by the Bible to be the one truth.
As with your very mundane tips, let me comment on them from a rational point of view:
first you should try to sound more scientific to prove your point: try to come up with some mathematical equations that, if not proving the earth is flat at least spice things up a little bit. Sometimes it really does not matter if they make any sense at all, but it gives the whole speech some air of superiority and you can easily convert a couple of dumbasses with little to no sweating.
And do you know what this is? It's called lying. Trying to sound scientific? Science always requires proof, which is obtained through measurements, test results and so on, not a random babble of made up fantasy.
For instance when debating gravity use this equation from the chapter on 'special relativity and the flat - spacetime' (see! even Einstein said it is flat!):
Einstein never used his paper on the Special Theory or Relativity to claim that the Earth is flat, nor has anyone else. In fact, the paper has never stated anything about the Earth being flat, and makes no hints and references to it either.
try to mention 'quantum mechanics' and the word 'entropy', along with Deepak Chopra. It not only sounds sexy but will leave everybody perplexed.
It does leave me perplexed - at your idiocy. Without linking quantum mechanics to the Flat-Earth Hypothesis, nothing is proven, and a good argument must at least attempt to prove its opponents. your argument would fail dismally against anyone who half understands the subject. And what's with Deepak Chopra? Since when did he publish a book about the Flat-Earth Hypothesis?
Proving the negative is a very efficient way of crushing your oponent: tell them how wrong mainstream science was with so many things. Don't forget historical references, they show your knowledge in history of science and philosophy.
In the cases when mainstream science was proven wrong, most of the time the theories were wrong because there was no way of gathering evidence to the contrary at the time, and because the theory seemed to fit the criteria perfectly with the information given, it was simply accepted as fact. A perfect example is the Flat-Earth Hypothesis itself. It was mainstream science in the past, but has been disproved using science, mathematics and photography, and replaced by the known fact that the Earth is round.
Of course you should come up with something related with the fallacy of the earth being round. In fact, now they say it's not even round 'cause around the poles its supposed to be flattened, or what not. See! They can't even agree on their flawed theory!
The theory has been revised after it was found in the 1600s that the Earth was flatter at the poles. It's just that the difference is only about 20km, and this does not affect the pictures of Earth, so most people don't realise it. If you had common sense, you would hav realised this. Besides, 20km of an object with a diameter of 125000km is almost a perfect circle anyway.
If you have trouble with that, suggest that in the name of open mindness we should teach alternative versions of science in geography and astronomy classes. We don't want to discriminate anybody, do we?By the way, why stop with flat-earth? Let's also teach nazi apologism, hollow earth theories, free energy, vibrator usage in the lesbian sexuality classes lab (that one I happen to agree with), vampire anatomy, etc. Just have some patience, soon enough you will have your sticker in Kansas that says 'the round earth theory is just a theory'.
You know, we humans exist in a society, and our society has something that sets us quite afar from animals - we have morality. Open mindness? The topics you've suggested insult so many other people that it is not open minded. Take the Nazis for example, they murdered millions of people on the basis of their race. They were extremely close-minded and believed that their race, the Arians, were the most superior race on Earth.
Always remember: make your opponent angry, so he ends up looking weak
You are seriously an idiot. This forum, however it may be full of fools on both sides, was meant for logical argument, something which you definitely lack.
Come up with a list of prominent scientists, experts, etc. that are flat-earthers. If you have a hard time finding any, just make them up or invent names and append a 'Phd in applied chromodynamics from MIT' to it. After that it will hard to debate the obvious truth, I mean, how can an expert from MIT be wrong, right?
There hasn't been a prominent scientist that believed in the flat-Earth since the 19th century, so you'll have no luck finding quotes. As for so called "Flat-Earth Theory experts", they haven't had any scientific backing since the Renaisssance. And yes, people do verify sources given from other people - at least the intelligent people anyway. Science is all about proving that something is correct, and if there is ludicrous information that is a downright lie, then the argument will not be accepted by anyone, except for the most idiotic, such as yourself.
To be honest though I have to say that your society AND the scientists are all wrong: the earth is a hollow spaceship manufactured by the aliens.
I've just proven your stupidity, so no need to do it again here.
And by the way, your arguments haven't been convincing or sexy.