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FLAT or ROUND Earth?

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Not so. The horizon is where the sky appears to meet the sea or the land.

The horizon is.......how ever high you intend to go up will always remain level.
 
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Why, so i could be deceived like you. That is like saying use the method science uses to determine evolution happen to disprove evolution
Mathematics and geometry do not care about subjective views. 2 + 2 will always equal 4 and the angles of a triangle will always add up to 180°.
 
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No it doesn’t, and if you think about it, it wouldn’t on a flat earth either. This is a non starter.

Yes it does, try it sometime.
 
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When next your in a plane look out the window.
Try using a theodolite, or even something like this:


The claim that the horizon always rises to eye level has been debunked so many times. Flatties just can’t accept it.
 
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The bible doesn't state the earth is flat but it certainly indictes that it is.
It only refers to the cultural beliefs of the ancient Israelites. Its no more physically real than the mythical Leviathan, the primeval ocean, the ladders to heavens for angels, the windows in the firmament for rain or the deep thoughts seating in one's kidneys.
 
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Its no more physically real than the mythical Leviathan, the primeval ocean, the ladders to heavens for angels, the windows in the firmament for rain or the deep thoughts seating in one's kidneys.

Or the spinning world you live in.

a sky crack.jpg
 
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To date I have never heard a Christian refer to a flat earth. But I may be isolated. It is hard to believe the earth is flat just from observation. We fly planes around it. We have ships circling the earth. There are satellites circling the earth. Our space program has spacecraft circling the earth as well as space stations. I do not know of any scripture passage the specifically says the earth is flat. But someone may educate me there.
Really? The only evidence I've heard for a flat earth has been biblical hermeneutics (so I assume the sharer is a christian). Also, about an hour south of my hometown is the "Flat Earth Society of Canada". It's in a very, very, VERY religious and VERY antiscience part of my province.
 
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The map I posted some time ago, provided by the Flat Earth Society, is an almost exact replica. And we're not talking about scale, we're talking proportion. The proportion of Australia, as you have discovered yourself, is out by a significant amount.

And the Gleeson map shows that you have to fly a very long way past L.A. to get to Santiago from Sydney. And you've discovered that that is simply not true. So if the earth is flat, there isn't a map that one could use.

Let's face it, it's difficult to produce a 2D map of a 3D globe that's accurate in all respects. If you had a ball on which the countries of the world were drawn, such as this...

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...then it's not possible to flatten that ball out. But if the earth was flat then it would be ridiculously easy to produce a 2D map. Which is what The Flat Earth Society has done. It's their official, this-is-what-the-world-actually-looks-like map.

And you have discovered that it's wrong.

Maps, distances etc ............ Doesn't prove the earth is a globe - Sorry.
 
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No I don't, my world is not spinning & less dangerous.
The world is dangerous because of the idiots in it.
Not because you don't believe that it rotates.
 
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