"Your maps have proven that the world is round"

[Spearthrower]

That's one crack at the end of the world I'd be happy to fall into!



Kranden... that site actually gave me a nightmare the first time I read it!!

The fact that its mission statement is to portray true facts to combat all the "liberal media" on the internet which doesnt show a) Enough Christian morals and b) Doesnt have enough American values.... which effectively rules out approximately 75% of its potential audience. Add to that the fact that they regularly ban anyone who posts something "liberal" and you start to see how they dont even follow their own rules.... surely one great American value is freedom of expression and non-censorship?

Check out some pages like "dinosaurs", which while it has changed a lot since the first time I read it (and made my jaw drop) still has lines like

Ever since the discovery of dinosaur fossils, there has been debate about whether and how dinosaurs fit into the history of life on Earth.
......
Creationists also reject the now-popular idea rolleyes that dinosaurs evolved into birds

Reading that site is a form of intellectual masochism!!

 

[Öjevind Lång]

Even circumnavigation doesn't prove the world was round. It could have been a cylinder. It wasn't proven until we put a man in space and he turned around to look.

And what he saw could be an optical illusion.

 

[r_rolo1]

The only "greek" proof of the sphericity ( or other kind of Elipsoid or derivated) of the Earth is the one proposed by Pythagoras of Samos ( yeah , the one of the Teorem ) : he noticed that the ships leaving harbour started to disapear from sight bottom first and sails last, and than that happened in all directions ( which implies a convex curvature ).

 

[frob2900]

I apologize for repeating what has already been said, but I'd just like to point out again that by some of the standards of proof that have been held up here, the world still hasn't been "proven to be round".

There's always some particular argument that one can lever against any theory or proposition (like saying e.g. that the roundness of earth from space is an optical illusion).

A theory can almost never be "absolutely proven". It can, on the other hand almost always be disproven. So an alternate way of looking at e.g. the Greek or Medieval scholars studying the flat/round earth problem is "what evidence did they have that the world isn't flat"?

 

[r_rolo1]

It can, on the other hand almost always be disproven. So an alternate way of looking at e.g. the Greek or Medieval scholars studying the flat/round earth problem is "what evidence did they have that the world isn't flat"?

See my post above ( this phenomena excludes a flat earth liminarly ). I agree that most of the Greek texts were not easily acessible to the Mediaval Europe, but any one could go to a coastal city and see the ships go away....

 

[Kranden]

Fox News reports!

The earth is actually flat and god created the earth in 4000bc, liberals are actually Demons in disguise and the Iraqi people love us.

 

[Withouthatred]

Will it say "x has discovered the world is flat", if you play on a flat map?