The Flat Earthers Are Still With Us

narcberry writes "The BBC reports on a scientific community still holding to flat earth theories. From their article: 'Are there any genuine flat-earthers left? Surely in our era of space exploration — where satellites take photos of our blue and clearly globular planet from space, and robots send back info about soil and water from Mars — no one can seriously still believe that the Earth is flat? Wrong. Flat earth theory is still around. On the internet and in small meeting rooms in Britain and the US, flat earth believers get together to challenge the 'conspiracy' that the Earth is round.'"

Comments

Re:Fake, fake and fake.

[phlegmofdiscontent]

Elephants on the backs of turtles pre-dates the Discworld series.

Re:Fake, fake and fake.

[KiloByte]

Actually, Pratchett borrowed that concept from an Indian myth.

(And no, it's not bad to borrow ideas, that's what our whole culture is based on, copyright notwithstanding.)

belief without experience is more stupider

[JasonNolan]

The problem is that people believe the stories of other people too much. Everyone says the earth is round because someone told them it is, not because they have personally done the tests or had the experience. I know people who think the earth is round, but can't say how they know except that they saw a picture or they read it somewhere. That's as stupid as creationist and their logic. I don't care if 'science' says so, or God. My earth is relatively flat. Nothing in my personal experience shows me otherwise. I've heard some great stories that the earth is round. It is probably true, but I personally have no way of verifying that information. Only an idiot takes thinks as true on faith. Now the practical reality is that a lot of science has a practical truth. Engineering science is a good way to build stuff that works, but to suddenly go off into believing 'ex officio' everything science says is silly. I can't wait to show myself the earth is round, as soon as I can get up the money for the flight. :)