Posted: Apr 27, 2010 8:36 pm
bit_pattern wrote
So, when you look out your window and see the horizon, do you conclude the Earth is flat?
If you lived where I live you'd know the world wasn't flat. If you're not going uphill you're going downhill. But I am puzzled, what has the horizon got to do with the nonsense of a flat Earth? The horizon is produced by the curvature of the Earth.
Sterling logic there, old chap. Who the hell needs data from buoys, satellites or tide-gauge measurements when you can just pop down to the beach and see for yourself!
Exactly! But don't worry, if the sea starts rising I'll raise the alarm long before you can correlate data from satellites etc.
It's always illuminating to see just what sorts of cognitive gymnastics people have to put themselves through to deny reality.
I know. Some people even think that sea-level is rising when any body can look at the sea and see it has not.
I just wonder how people like you end up on a forum like this. Is it some form of intellectual masochism that drives you?
Wait a minute, I am on the rational SKEPTICISM forum aren't I? Belief is not enough. If it looks like bread and wine and tastes like bread and wine then it's bread and wine. The consensus followed by experts for 2,000 years makes no sense to me.