Forbes Tackles the Flat Earth

[juvenissun]

No, it doesn't. No, it doesn't (because it's semi-liquid). And no, I'm not.

I am not arguing with you here, just provide you with information:
The pillar is NOT semi-liquid, it is a layman's description. It has density about 4, and is solid at any moment.

 

[Strathos]

They definitely mean it literally. Have you ever tried arguing with one of them?

 

[pitabread]

It seems they cannot answer many questions put to them. Why do they insist on all the global conspiracies taking place? Is this the only way to support their beliefs?

Conspiracy theories and pseudo-science seem to go hand-in-hand.

 

[Michael]

They definitely mean it literally. Have you ever tried arguing with one of them?

Literalists tend to elevate their own personal, highly literal interpretation to the status of infallibility. I find arguing with them to be rather pointless in most cases. The mental gymnastics of their rationizations tends to give me a headache.

 

[Radagast]

Aristotle (384-322 BCE) knew that the Earth was a sphere.

Aristotle is indeed before Eratosthenes (276 to 195 BC) and after Hecataeus (550 to 476 BC), but Aristotle wasn't the first to know that the Earth was a sphere.

 

[Ophiolite]

I only take one argument at a time. Sorry.

1. A four-corner object does not mean a flat object. It could be a cube.
2. We still use maps today. Any map obviously has four corners. It does not mean the land over the map is flat.

I have several maps that lack any corners, so your emboldened statement is incorrect.

 

[Radagast]

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