Absolutely not, flat earthers are not even able to construct a simplified model. It always contradicts what we experience and even plenty of the flat earth claims.
This statement could not possibly be more wrong. The world was expertly navigated by a geocentric flat earth model for over a millennia. It works extremely well according to virtually all observation.
Most of what globe earth / heliocentric theory does is take what we do see and mathematically invert the reality of it... (that's when not simply fudging data to conform to a 3D model of a globe.)
There was a famous quote by a renowned 20th century astrophysicist... (I forget his name, but I promise I'll dig it up if you want..) He said that you could take all the data of a heliocentric system and make it work equally well in a geocentric system. What you chose was merely a matter of your philosophical stance. If I recall correctly, Einstein said something similar.
Smart people can create an entire virtual reality with math if they are determined enough to do so.
This has nothing with globe vs flat earth, its related to the mass and acceleration of galaxies.
So when is the last time you joined a mainstream science forum to criticize those Christians for believing in a model that doesn't work?
A 'Big-Bang' cosmological model that has to invent 90% of itself to maintain itself is a model that clearly does not work, and according to you that is a pretty big deal.
The reason I bring this up is because I think it reveals that this flat/globe earth debate is not
actually over scientific evidence, but something more ideological and philosophical, which is why it seems to strike a nerve in everyone.
Because the biblical authors wanted to create a polemic with the Babylonian and Assyrian polytheistic creation stories. The monotheism (Yahvism) is the teaching, bible does not teach any science.
You are having the tail wag the dog. The Biblical authors wrote that Babylon and Assyria descended from Noah. If anything, the Israelites were reclaiming a cosmology that had "evolved" uniquely among different cultures, not copying someone else's.
Just think of the magi visiting the newborn Christ. These men were from distant lands but still had in their tradition access to prophecy that correctly predicted the exact time and place of the birth of Jesus. Just because these are accounts held by pagan nations, does not mean they are necessarily incorrect. They also all have cultural memories of the worldwide flood, the confusing of languages at Babel, etc.
Okay, then you are just putting current scientific consensus on the same level as divine revelation. What is a higher authority? It cannot be wrong and to question it is blasphemy.
We did not need it. It was not written to us. Babylonian Jews needed it for their own cultural reasons.
The apostle Paul was the original preacher to the gentile world and he clearly did not have that view of scripture. And there is also a clear biblical record of the Jews before and after their Babylonian exile.
Because they preach as dogma something that is not a dogma and destroy the faith of people, when those people learn the biblical cosmology does not exist, for example in schools or in their jobs.
I don't believe that actually happens.
All my life I never encountered Christians pushing geocentrism or a flat-earth and still watched nearly everyone around me flock to atheism, agnosticism, new-age spirituality, etc., most of whom even came out of a Christian environment. My generation is the one where nearly everyone grew up going to church on Sunday, but by adulthood the majority did not consider themselves a Christian. And none of us ever had Christians pushing flat-earth on us.
However, all of us were repeatedly taught through various education programs that Science had proven the Bible was largely a book of mythology, thanks to Copernicus, Galileo, etc. and the heroes of the scientific enlightenment that liberated humanity from its dark age.
