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5 unusual facts about flat earth


Creation and evolution in public education in the United States

Many, such as Richard Dawkins, compare teaching intelligent design in schools to teaching flat earthism, since the scientific consensus regarding these issues is identical.

Jeffrey Burton Russell

In Inventing the Flat Earth (1991) he argues that 19th century anti-Christians invented and spread the falsehood that educated people in the Middle Ages believed that the earth was flat.

Leo Ferrari

In Ferrari's writings in support of the FES and the Flat Earth model he attributed everything from gender to racial inequality on the globularist and the Spherical Earth model.

Matthew 4:8

Fortna also notes that the verse could be implying a Flat Earth, which would allow for all countries to be seen at once from a tall enough mountain.

Tjøme

Ironically enough, it is not really the end of the world in any sense, but when one stands there and looks out across the vast area of ocean one can forget about the geography and really feel like there is nothing else out there.


Greek astronomy

Though neither Homer nor Hesiod set out to write a scientific work, they hint at a rudimentary cosmology of a flat earth surrounded by an "Ocean River."

Koreshanity

The Koreshans even conducted several experiments, similar to those conducted by believers in a Flat Earth.


see also

Cross-promotion

In Flat Earth News (2009) Nick Davies wrote that both Tiny Rowland and Robert Maxwell had regularly interfered with their respective UK newspapers to support their business interests.

Flat Earth News

Flat Earth News (journal), the 1977–1981 non-peer-reviewed journal of the Flat Earth Society

Flat Earth News, a 2008 non-fiction book by Nick Davies, an exposé of journalistic malpractice; the full title is Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media (2008), ISBN 978-0-7011-8145-1

Flat Earth Society

Richard A. Lupoff's novel Circumpolar! describes a flat planet much like the Earth as described by the Flat Earth Society, except it has a hole at the centre instead of a North Pole, and the underside contains fictional lands such as Atlantis and Lemuria.

California-based punk rock band Bad Religion include a song entitled "Flat Earth Society", written by Brett Gurewitz, on their album Against the Grain (1990).

Inventing the Flat Earth

Inventing the Flat Earth (1991; ISBN 978-0-275-95904-3) is a book by historian Jeffrey Burton Russell debunking the notion that medieval Christians believed the earth was flat.

Robert Schadewald

He attended at least a dozen national creationism conferences, interviewed Immanuel Velikovsky, investigated perpetual motion machines, and got thrown out of the International Flat Earth Research Society for his "spherical" tendencies.

It consisted of about a thousand volumes advocating various unorthodox ideas: hollow-earth, geocentricity, creationism, Velikovskyism, perpetual motion, racism, anti-semitism, anti-Catholicism, Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, flying saucers, bizarre religions, and so forth, as well as the worlds most extensive collection of 19th and 20th century flat-earth literature.

Wigner–Weyl transform

(The oldest illustration of this may be the realization of Eratosthenes in the ancient world that a flat earth was deformable to a spherical earth, with deformation parameter 1/R.)