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the myth of flat earth debunked again

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Why have been questioning the word of God?

The boundary is the sky. The garment is the sky, the tabernacle for the sun is the sky.
Then it should be the tabernacle for the moon as well. And both should be going in and out of the tabernacle, which doesn't happen
 
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There is a point in a thread where must conclude that some participants are either trolls, or logically challenged. In the first case we should stop feeding them, in the second case we should stop embarrassing them. Just a thought.
 
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There is a point in a thread where must conclude that some participants are either trolls, or logically challenged. In the first case we should stop feeding them, in the second case we should stop embarrassing them. Just a thought.

Or, as an unlikely and horribly possible third option, the people are very sincere and genuine in their beliefs. It does happen more than you think.
 
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Are you going to respond to post #1006 where I clearly show that you said that human line of sight is 3 miles?
I never said it stops at 3 miles.

The line of sight is about 3 miles, we can see farther if the horizon is not in the way.

But the horizon is always eye level, limiting our sight, because we are not on a ball.
On a ball it should go below eye level as we increase altitude.

I am not a troll, I don't come on here every day.
This place is very active, when I do post, people come right on.

The Bible is the truth. The earth is as the Bible describes.
 
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I never said it stops at 3 miles.

The line of sight is about 3 miles, we can see farther if the horizon is not in the way.

But the horizon is always eye level, limiting our sight, because we are not on a ball.
On a ball it should go below eye level as we increase altitude.

I am not a troll, I don't come on here every day.
This place is very active, when I do post, people come right on.

The Bible is the truth. The earth is as the Bible describes.
You are posting lies about the Bible.
 
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Or, as an unlikely and horribly possible third option, the people are very sincere and genuine in their beliefs. It does happen more than you think.
Yes, but I would argue that the only way they can maintain that sincerity is by lacking an effective process of critical and logical thinking. Several people have presented what are, to most of us, clear, well validated observations that when critically and logically examined demonstrate that the Earth is not flat, but is a sphere. To sincerely deny this can only, to my mind, be accounted for if they have not understood those arguments, observations and demonstrations.
 
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I never said it stops at 3 miles.

The line of sight is about 3 miles, we can see farther if the horizon is not in the way.

But the horizon is always eye level, limiting our sight, because we are not on a ball.
On a ball it should go below eye level as we increase altitude.

I am not a troll, I don't come on here every day.
This place is very active, when I do post, people come right on.

The Bible is the truth. The earth is as the Bible describes.

Mate, in post #703, you clearly says "Human line of sight is 3 miles". Line of sight refers to the distance between object A, the observer, and object B, whatever they're looking at. The horizon exists because we are on a ball. If we weren't, there wouldn't be a horizon because there would be no curve because it'd be flat!

And I've shown, in post 1006, directing to another post that shows that as an observer gets higher, they can see more of a distant object. Which directly contradicts what you claim.
 
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Yes, but I would argue that the only way they can maintain that sincerity is by lacking an effective process of critical and logical thinking. Several people have presented what are, to most of us, clear, well validated observations that when critically and logically examined demonstrate that the Earth is not flat, but is a sphere. To sincerely deny this can only, to my mind, be accounted for if they have not understood those arguments, observations and demonstrations.

Exactly. Logical dissonance is a thing. People are not simple machines operating in binary logics of 1s and 0s, true and false.
 
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To sincerely deny this can only, to my mind, be accounted for if they have not understood those arguments, observations and demonstrations.
The Airy failure experiment anyone can do.
Sagnacs epxeriement anyone can do.
The cardboard cloud experiment anyone can do demonstrating the nature of local light.
This recent video I just posted
The Bible

These are things I have mentioned in this thread that have not gotten sincere rebuts,
what I get is people trying to call me names and label me, not any kind of hard facts and evidence.


And explained here:
The video you posted does not go over the video I posted, it is talking about a different video at 47,000 feet.
The video I showed is from 28,000 feet.
 
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