Bumped to get a response.Tom Bishop among others have fallen back on the support of FE writers to help explain phenomenons. However, supporting these "Sacred Texts"
http://www.sacred-texts.com/earth/za/za02.htm means that I can attack them directly and save time.
I am curious how the sunsets can be explained as "too far to see" or an "optical illusion"
Explained in Chapter 9 of the book Earth Not a Globe:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/earth/za/za27.htm
It states that the sun which supposedly moves parallel to the surface of the Earth in a circle, appears to set because a distancing object will do such as a law of perspective. This would require the velocity of the sun to dramatically increase in speed the closer to the horizon it is in order to look as if it were in fact setting. Moving straight at a constant speed would make it look slower the further away it is.
Just to indulge this little overlooked implication, people the sun is passing over don't notice the sun speeding up but in fact see the opposite: slowing down on this straight line. The only explanation is that the sun actually sets. Besides, if the sun was that small, going such a distance would make it appear to shrink.
I also would like to mention for the Flat Sun theorists, a circle viewed at an angle looks like an oval. If you don't believe me, draw a circle on a peice of paper and tilt it. Ooooh! Its an ellipse now!
Also, the shape of the sun and moon should appear to change as they move over the FE.
The sun is a sphere. Its light is limited to a spotlight.
Ummm... Dude, light is how we
SEE stuff. If the sun was spherical but only emits light like a spot light, than we would
still see the oval effect.
Basically, earthlings would be able to see the sun from anywhere on a flat earth.. even if the sun wasn't shinning directly on them.
The sun is very small and very close to the earth. This allows the sun to only light one section of the world at a time.
Which is why moving that far towards the horizon
would make it appear to shrink massively. Only a very large object would appear to remain constant when moving that far away.
These issues were not covered in your 'sacred texts'.