I was not getting technically philisophical at all, and I'm not sure what I said that made you so boldly assume so. I'm just saying that they showed what evidence they had for the round Earth creation. But they didn't show the other side of the debate. So, they have what is apparently valid evidence, and thusly, the next logical step is for the flat Earth theory to disprove that evidence. You have still disproved nothing.
~D-Draw
Apologies if I misinterpreted your statement. No the show itself defintielly doesn't disprove FE and of course its aim isn't to do so (that is, it doesn't take FE specifically point by point showing everything that is wrong with it and comparing it to the evidence they're putting forward). I guess the comment I was
initially trying to make is that it is under no obligation to show the "other side of the debate" since RE vs FE isn't a real scientific debate to being with. The debate here I think is more for amusement puroses than anything else (though I can't speak for everyone). My point was that the fact that the earth is round has been scientifically proven already (prior to this show ever being made), ergo there really isn't anything left for the show to disprove with respect to that particular idea. A handful of hardheaded people with an inability to think, challenging a position for reasons that don't stand up to any scrutiny does not make for a legitimate debate - not a scientific one.
It shows the side supported by evidence. By your approach we could say: evolution does not disprove the babylonian creation myth, or the egyptian creation myth, or the judeo-christian one etc etc. because it only shows one side of the argument.
Evolution isn't a creation theory, so it wouldn't disprove any of those things.
You're right of course that evolution does not deal with how life started, I was not being specific enough in my statement. Evolution doesn't disprove the idea of creation itself, but I think it does disprove certain key aspects of various creation myths as told. For instance, the judeo-christian creation story teaches that man was created from scratch in his present anatomical form by a supernatural deity. Evolution, or rather the evidence for evolution, shows very clearly that man evolved from other life forms and is not a product of intelligent design as described in that myth. So I think, scienitifically speaking, that evolution disproves that aspect of the creation myth. Other areas of science of course disprove other aspects (i.e. the order in which things appear, how long it took, how long ago it happened etc).