Could you summarize or point me to the best few arguments? I'm looking for just a couple of arguments that will give someone pause, to make them realize that they haven't thought this through.
Thanks.
It's funny you should ask such a basic question and I'm having a hard time answering it. I think Space Cowgirl said it best twice; search around here and for two, by far, the best argument and almost only argument, is that it looks flat. When I say 'only' I just mean in the sense, if one were to take it at face value, FE wins, hands down.
If you and I were looking out over a vast ocean and you said, "See, it's flat, look how flat it is." I would retort, "Yes, it appears that way, but you have to understand, it's a huge globe, we are small, our field of view is thus and it only 'appears' flat, but it really isn't..." Cutting in you respond, "Ummm, yeah, whatever, look, it's flat," whilst gesturing out with a sweeping arm guiding my gaze horizontally across the line where water meets sky that is oh so straight and level in all directions.
That's just the brown fragile and flaky velum on the surface of the onion. You start peeling and you may never find any adequate answers, or you might.