flat earth religion

Quote from: garygreen on July 16, 2012, 11:36:13 AM

I love this notion of self importance that FEers give themselves by suggesting that they're the only ones who are ever skeptical of what they're taught.

 

"Never think you can turn over any old falsehood without a terrible squirming of the horrid little population that dwells under it." -O.W. Holmes "Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.."

Yes, what a life! What is the truth?

Homines, dum docent, dispenguin.

As being innative, may you explain this?

Quote from: Ski on July 16, 2012, 05:22:59 PM

Quote from: garygreen on July 16, 2012, 11:36:13 AM

I love this notion of self importance that FEers give themselves by suggesting that they're the only ones who are ever skeptical of what they're taught.

 

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"Never think you can turn over any old falsehood without a terrible squirming of the horrid little population that dwells under it." -O.W. Holmes "Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.."

Yes, what a life! What is the truth?

Homines, dum docent, dispenguin.

As being innative, may you explain this?

Happy, I'm not sure if you've noticed this or not, but most everyone else has. Your posts, well... they contribute nothing to any debate you've been in on this forum.

The more I've read this site, the more FET appears like a religion where all of the believers are apologists.  The relevant questions all FET's should answer is: Do you interpret the Bible literally?  How old do you believe the Earth is?

It's important because here is a group of people who have formed a belief who are attempting to use science to justify it.  That's not how science works.  With the scientific method you might form a hypothesis and then find evidence to support it but it has to be falsifiable.  FETers believe deeply in their claim without falsifiable evidence and change their hypothesis based on whatever "new" and generally flawed laws of physics and made up "law of sight" or other "laws".

The purpose answering the above questions would serve would be to find where one stands on what science really is.  Literal interpretations of the Bible invalidate the most basic laws of physics and what can be proven with science.  If you are a Bible literalist AND trying to prove your belief of FET with science then you've failed hypocritically.  I know that all FETers aren't religious or literalists, but I would guess most are.

If you aren't a Bible literalist or claim to be non-religious then you have a serious misunderstanding of the scientific method.  From my observations as a third party with no desire to change the views of one group or the other, I have to say the FET arguments:

a: only weakly support the view and appear to be "made up" science.
b: deflect the real substance of the debate by focusing on the wording of arguments or semantics.

As a "society" FET is more of a support group than a convincing body of activists.  Because it's not presented as a support group 90% of this website appears to be an elaborate troll where the most notable believers are anon operators.  That statement is not meant to be an insult but rather my observation.  Either way, it's chock full of entertaining posts and opens my imagination to all of the possibilities of what kind of person it takes to strongly believe (not just wonder or question whether) the Earth is flat.  My conclusions generally lead me to religion, especially based on the replies from believers.  The fact that they self identify as "believers" only strengthens my opinion.

I do.