It's my understanding that the FES exists because its members believe the Bible (and perhaps other ancient religious texts as well) teaches that the world is flat. My guess is the logic goes something like this:
1) The Bible is God's inerrant Word.
2) The Bible teaches that the world is flat.
3) The world is flat, and all scientific claims to the contrary must be false.
This is the only way that I can make sense of the claims I've read on this site, which seem to fly in the face of both science and common sense--wavy light, an accelerating earth, an antimoon, and the like. Now please don't get me wrong. If 1) and 2) above are correct, then I don't dispute that the logical and scientific gymnastics found on this site are necessary. Perhaps I have mischaracterized the members of this society, and if so I apologize, and please explain so I can understand better. I'm guessing beyond this is a commitment to a strictly literal hermeneutic, so the earth must have "ends" like the terminology found in the Bible.
But here's my question/issue. If you're committed to a strictly literal hermeneutic, then it would seem to me that the earth you describe here (whether a finite or infinite plane), does not fit at all the Biblical picture of the earth. After all, God's word says that the earth has been laid on a foundation (Psalm 102:25), and it even has a cornerstone (Job 38:6). The earth with its foundations is laid above the waters (Psalm 24:3; 136:6). These waters are bounded by doors and bars (Job 38:8-10). These waters are under the earth too, since God broke up the fountains of the deep to allow water to come to the surface of the earth at the beginning of the flood (Gen. 7:11). Above the earth is a solid firmament (Gen. 1:6; Psalm 19:1), which is like a curtain or a tent (Isaiah 44:22), and inside this tent is where you can find the sun (Ps 19:4). Above the firmament are waters (Gen 1:6). In this solid firmament there are doors (Psalm 78:23) to allow rain and clouds to enter. This solid firmament is suspended over the earth and held in place by pillars (Job 26:11; Psalm 75:3). The Bible clearly describes the earth created by God as a giant building, and heaven is the place of God's "upper chambers" (Psalm 104:3) above the solid firmament of the earth in the upper waters. This picture does not square at all with what I've seen on this site so I wonder if someone could comment on how FES members interpret the Bible? It would seem to me, if you're committed to a strictly literal hermeneutic, you should have to picture the earth as giant, flat building. But if you allow the architectural language of Scripture to be a metaphorical, phenomenological description of the world, then why insist on the world being flat?