RE: Flat Earther, and other conspiracy theories. Are they mostly atheists?
March 3, 2021 at 12:44 pm
(This post was last modified: March 3, 2021 at 12:46 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(March 3, 2021 at 10:27 am)Ferrocyanide Wrote:(February 28, 2021 at 11:15 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Well, where do anti-science claims usually come from if not religion? Six-day creation, deluge, flat earth, angels and demons, faith healing are all conspiracies that stem from holy books like Bible and Koran.
Good point.
I have seen a few flat earthers claim that math is meaningless when I use mathematics to show them why the Earth is spheroid.
They are into qualitative descriptions rather than quantitative.
They also repeat yee old mantra: it's just a theory.
Their mathematics education is very week.
One of them told me that mathematics can be used to show anything. He gave me this example:
If you have 5 apples and 5 apples, then 5 * 5 = 25. Do you have 25 apples?
I told him the result is not 25 apples. It is 25 apples^2.
In the reality that we live in, there is no such thing as apples^2, kelvin^2, gram^5, second^11.
However, meter^2 does exist.
--Ferrocyanide
I flatter myself that I’m a reasonably bright fellow, but I can’t follow your maths. If I have five apples and five apples, I have ten apples, not 25 (and certainly not 625).
Could you please explain why meters can be expressed exponentially, but not apples, degrees Kelvin, grams or seconds?
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson