Yeah did that with my dad. As soon as he expressed that he doesn't believe in conventional scientific methodology and academic consensus, I stopped discussing any of those topics with him.

No basis to discuss if he doesn't even consider evidence for disproving his theories.

There was an episode of South Park where the kids claimed that a word that we view as a bigoted slur against gay men actually referred to people who loudly ride motorcycles at night.

If reason doesn't work for flat earthers, maybe we should use one of the well-known euphemisms that we no longer use for people whose mental abilities are far below average. You know, like, "special".

Not entirely true. I grew up fundamentalist, learned scientific reasoning, and got out of it.

For optimization reasons, only the slice you currently look at is actually computed completely, the rest is just approximated. That's why closing your eyes when you're about to crash into something actually helps: chances are in the lower approximation, you'll just clip through the wall a bit.

Yeah but that's because you're the main character, the rest of us just have to deal with low LoD :(

What are the stars? They are bits of fire a few kilometres away.

We could reach them if we wanted to. Or we could blot them out.

The earth is the centre of the universe. The sun and the stars go round it.

For certain purposes, of course, that is not true. When we navigate the ocean, or when we predict an eclipse, we often find it convenient to assume that the earth goes round the sun and that the stars are millions upon millions of kilometres away.

But what of it?

Do you suppose it is beyond us to produce a dual system of astronomy?

The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them.

Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal to that?

Have you forgotten doublethink?

I think having the final word be "flat" makes it so much better. It opens up the poem to a much wider set of interpretations. There's yours, but you can also derive this statement about male dominance in hetero relationships, for example.

I used to work with a guy who was also a Methodist pastor. Most of our conversations were perfectly normal and fine, but every once in a while he would be like, "So where do you think the government is hiding the nephilim fossils?"

Or ask if round earth is a massive conspiracy, what's the angle? How does getting people to believe in a flat earth rather than a round one serve an agenda to the point where even a simple test that could prove the flatness always "goes wrong"? And if they say that the experimenters get threatened or something, why do they generally remain as confused flat earthers afterwards? If they were going to be threatened, why half-ass it and let them continue pushing flat earth instead of making them change sides?

evolution doesnt contradict the Bible The Bible says Earth and humans were created in 7 days but those are 7 days for God, and we dont know how long a day is for God, and it was written before the 24 hour system

Look at you, believing that the Earth exists.