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Flat or round earth -The final experiment.

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So you've gone through every member on this forum to see if they are flat eathers ?
No, read carefully. I said "from what I saw on this forum". Only like 5 members are active in these threads on the flat earth side.
 
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You still do not get the problem. Globe is not some theoretical principle we debate in books. Its what we know is there, because we actually looked, measured, calculated. No amount of ancient literature can change that.

No amount of equations & their gobbledygook science will change the fact that the earth is flat.

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No amount of equations & their gobbledygook science will change the fact that the earth is flat.

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Sigh. Look up. You will see the ISS or one of thousands of satellites. Its not just a math on a board, we actually looked and saw the globe. We are out there.

Even you personally can send a cam attached to a balloon so high that you will see at least the curvature of the Earth.

This is like talking to a child. No, worse - this like like talking to a blinded cultist. Children are open-minded and curious, you are not.
 
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No, the "spherical crowd" does not lose "there" collective mind. The vast majority of Christians simply do not agree with your obviously and demonstrably wrong views.
Well as you said “the writers of the Bible got it wrong”.
 
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Well as you said “the writers of the Bible got it wrong”.
Yes, Bible is inspired in main theological and moral points. The rest is human work. And humans can get things wrong - numbers, places, shape of the Earth, anatomy, botany, names, the order of events...

And guess what? It does not matter at all, once you give up your rigid religious ideas how the Bible must be inspired.
 
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Well as you said “the writers of the Bible got it wrong”.
If the authors of the Bible were making a definite statement about the shape of the earth - which has nothing to do with salvation or the Christian faith - they could only have done it based on what they knew, or could observe, at the time.
They could not see hundreds of years ahead and comment on scientific discoveries that had not been made. Otherwise, they might well have given instructions about mobile phones; turning them off when in church. Or computers/the internet. Or IVF, cloning people, genetic modification and a dozen other things.

The Bible isn't a science text book, anyway.
 
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I've looked up but I don't see them :scratch:
Buy a telescope, then, to see better. Its not that complicated (or even that expensive), if its something you are interested in so deeply.

Nobody hinders you from becoming an amateur astronomer. You will spend your time better than watching silly flat earthers' youtube videos.
 
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I know all this, but I find it such a coincidence that we say 'nasa' & with the letter T would be an anagram of the name Satan, instead they use the letter T to say T minus upon blast off.
Too many coincidences here to be anything but.......

Also the name 'Satan' is an anagram for Santa & we all know where this fictitious character is supposed to come from :santa:^_^
And God is dog backwards. You don't even have to re-arrange or drop any letters. Coincidence? No, nonsense.
 
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The inexorable flow of time is synonymous with the existence itself. Indeed, everything exists in time. However, from where does the time come? This is, perhaps, the greatest mystery of science. In modern physics, we do not know what time is, let alone from where it comes. We only know how to measure it – by counting the number of periodic intervals, which we accept as a unit of time. This cycle was born out of observations of the apparent rotation of the sun around the earth.
 
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If the authors of the Bible were making a definite statement about the shape of the earth - which has nothing to do with salvation or the Christian faith - they could only have done it based on what they knew, or could observe, at the time.
They could not see hundreds of years ahead and comment on scientific discoveries that had not been made. Otherwise, they might well have given instructions about mobile phones; turning them off when in church. Or computers/the internet. Or IVF, cloning people, genetic modification and a dozen other things.

The Bible isn't a science text book, anyway.
Quoting the creator “the earth is mounted on pillars and cannot be moved “. I know 7 verses combined saying this means nothing to u but some here take Gods words quite seriously.
 
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Quoting the creator “the earth is mounted on pillars and cannot be moved “. I know 7 verses combined saying this means nothing to u but some here take Gods words quite seriously.
Don't tell me God's word means nothing to me - you know nothing about me.

Some people take ALL of God's word to be literal; yes.
That is not to say that those who don't have that approach, don't believe it.
 
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Don't tell me God's word means nothing to me - you know nothing about me.

Some people take ALL of God's word to be literal; yes.
That is not to say that those who don't have that approach, don't believe it.
From this thread on the flat earth I can safely make the observation that……us flat earth era quote the Bible and the sphere crowd responds with…..interpretation, and the Bible writers got it wrong. I get it.
 
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From this thread on the flat earth I can safely make the observation that……us flat earth era quote the Bible and the sphere crowd responds with…..interpretation, and the Bible writers got it wrong. I get it.
So? Look up. You can see the ISS or one of the thousands of satellites. It does not matter how you read your Bible, what matters is reality.
 
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From this thread on the flat earth I can safely make the observation that……us flat earth era quote the Bible and the sphere crowd responds with…..interpretation, and the Bible writers got it wrong. I get it.
Perhaps you can explain with your flat earth model, how the direct flight from Sydney to Santiago takes less time than the direct flight from Sydney to Los Angeles?
 
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The inexorable flow of time is synonymous with the existence itself. Indeed, everything exists in time. However, from where does the time come? This is, perhaps, the greatest mystery of science. In modern physics, we do not know what time is, let alone from where it comes. We only know how to measure it – by counting the number of periodic intervals, which we accept as a unit of time. This cycle was born out of observations of the apparent rotation of the sun around the earth.

 
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I have one, thank you.
Why dont you use it then? If you caught the ISS or any of the satellites, you debunked your own view, easily and quickly. There are many instructions online how to see the ISS or satellites, through a telescope.
 
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