Flat Earther, and other conspiracy theories. Are they mostly atheists?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

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