RE: Flat Earther, and other conspiracy theories. Are they mostly atheists?
March 3, 2021 at 10:27 am
(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
