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Refuting the Flat-Earth theory

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Refuting the Flat-Earth theory
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RE: Refuting the Flat-Earth theory
March 29, 2023 at 8:22 pm
(March 29, 2023 at 7:51 pm)Tomato Wrote: ... that we've never been to space is that nothing can bypass what she refers to as the firmament.

Huh
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RE: Refuting the Flat-Earth theory
March 29, 2023 at 11:08 pm (This post was last modified: March 29, 2023 at 11:10 pm by Fake Messiah.)
You can not refute flat Earth to flat-earthers because these people just invent stuff that does not exist to "verify" their beliefs. Like you said:

(March 29, 2023 at 11:19 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: But that is demonstrably not the case. You can observe that in two ways:
a) You can see the sunset twice if you watch the sunset sitting down and then quickly stand up (the sun stays at your eye level, but the horizon imperceptibly falls).

They will just invent some nonexisting effect like that air bends light so that you can see the sun setting down twice.
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RE: Refuting the Flat-Earth theory
March 30, 2023 at 6:33 am
I refute nonsense for a good reason: If we don't then only their version is available to the fence-sitters.
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RE: Refuting the Flat-Earth theory
March 30, 2023 at 6:37 am
At work I just listen to the nonsense and keep quiet. In retail, I actually never heard nonsense like I do from those in the medical field.
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RE: Refuting the Flat-Earth theory
March 30, 2023 at 10:52 am
I was surprised that in SC, most microbiologists I've met are also Creationists....
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RE: Refuting the Flat-Earth theory
March 30, 2023 at 11:35 am
(March 30, 2023 at 10:52 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: I was surprised that in SC, most microbiologists I've met are also Creationists....

"At a specific point He stepped back and let us run with it."

Never say what that point was.
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RE: Refuting the Flat-Earth theory
March 30, 2023 at 12:45 pm
(March 30, 2023 at 6:33 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: I refute nonsense for a good reason: If we don't then only their version is available to the fence-sitters.

Anyone who is ‘on the fence’ about the shape of the Earth is already lost. It is so grindingly, creakingly, crushingly obvious what the shape of this planet is that anyone who says, ‘Gee, I’m still not sure’ is ready to consider arguments that ducks are made of cheese.

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RE: Refuting the Flat-Earth theory
March 30, 2023 at 1:41 pm
(March 30, 2023 at 12:45 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(March 30, 2023 at 6:33 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: I refute nonsense for a good reason: If we don't then only their version is available to the fence-sitters.

Anyone who is ‘on the fence’ about the shape of the Earth is already lost. It is so grindingly, creakingly, crushingly obvious what the shape of this planet is that anyone who says, ‘Gee, I’m still not sure’ is ready to consider arguments that ducks are made of cheese.

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Young people who are hearing this for the first time would be helped by a rational version of that bullshit.
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RE: Refuting the Flat-Earth theory
March 30, 2023 at 2:44 pm
It's said that many flat-earthers are just trolling. If so, the point of persuasion diminishes significantly.
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RE: Refuting the Flat-Earth theory
March 30, 2023 at 3:04 pm
(March 30, 2023 at 2:44 pm)Angrboda Wrote: It's said that many flat-earthers are just trolling.  If so, the point of persuasion diminishes significantly.

How many is anybody's guess. I've met some very sincere ones, never met one who was just trolling.
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