No one had ever sailed around the Earth, nor had anyone ever examined the curvature of the Earth. Earth is extremely large compared to a single human being, and due to a lack of advanced transportation technology, there was no reason to bel...
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Flat Earth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The flat Earth model is a view that the Earth's shape is a flat plane. This view contrasts with a view recorded around the 4th century BC by natural philosophers of Classical Greece that the Earth i...
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Flat Earth Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Flat Earth Society (also known as the International Flat Earth Society or the International Flat Earth Research Society ) was an organization that sought to further the belief that the Earth...
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Contrary to what most people think, the Earth was known to be spherical in ancient times. The ancient Greeks even calculated its circumference with surprising accuracy. ... Evolutionists often falsely accuse creationists of believing in a flat Earth. But neither history nor modern scholarship supports the claim that...
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Actually, historically not that many people really thought the Earth was flat. Certainly not the Greeks, and not the scholars at the time of Columbus. What people have believed is that the Earth is the center of the Universe, and everything...
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It is the notion that people used to believe that the earth was flat--especially medieval Christians. ... No one before the 1830s believed that medieval people thought that the earth was flat.
www.veritas-ucsb.org/library/russell/FlatEarth.html www.veritas-ucsb.org/library/russell/FlatEarth.html
Ultimately people get the economic system they vote for. The problem is that neither political party is all that committed to allowing more economic freedom. ... I should revise my headline: at least the majority of people don't think the earth is flat.
www.divisionoflabour.com/archives/005137.php
The earth is flat because the Quran says so using all the words in the Arabic vocabulary which can possibly mean flat. Let us review the following words used by the Quran to describe the flatness of the earth’s surface: 1. Sutehat: If you w...
http://www.islam-watch.org/MuminSalih/Universe_Accordin...
Bernard Katz asks for counterexamples to the claim that "at no time in the history of western culture did educated people think that the Earth is flat." Counterexamples will turn on the definition of "educated" of course, but I refer him to Owen Gingerich's article "Astronomy in the Age of Columbus" in the November...
www.sfu.ca/philosophy/swartz/flat_earth.htm www.sfu.ca/philosophy/swartz/flat_earth.htm
If you go to the main website/forum (Can't remember the URL, I'm sure other diggers have it) then obviously there's misguided people there who actually believe in a flat earth, ... fandyboy, on 08/05/2008, -1/+12I studied Astrophysics adn also think it's wise to question things but trust me, the Earth is not flat.
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