Posted: Apr 10, 2014 11:50 am
Durro wrote:There are groups of people out there who fervently believe that the Earth is flat, rather than oblate spheroid as science tells us. They cite so-called evidence of a patently dubious nature and reject all scientific claims about the shape of the Earth. This is in direct contradiction to the fields of geology, physics, astrophysics and so on, and contradicts direct observation by imagery space born craft and/or humans (astronauts/cosmonauts).
Are there? My experience, minor as it is, indicates that the flat-earthers don't believe a word of it. It's a sort of logic/language game.
I could be wrong, of course.