Flat Earthers on Good Morning

Just curious really. I'm not interested in debating it. The earth is a sphere (well almost) if you don't think it is that's fine.
I'm not sure how much more eviedence anyone can ask for than a picture taken from orbit.

 

Now yre just taking all the fun out of it!

 

What if its not round but flat and spinning very fast like some celestial coin toss, and what if the bugger who flipped it called wrong!!

( I'm getting into this now! )

 

My philosophising starts and ends with this... If God created the universe who created God? IMO God is a man made construct and religion (all religion) has little or nothing to do with God and about man's control over fellow man. Rituals are part of that control.
The concept that 'The Pope is God's representative on Earth and Catholic Priests are representatives of the Pope and have the authority via him to absolve people of sin via confession' was a masterpiece of strategy to keep power and control the population over the ages'. It meant the masses could be tied to the Catholic Church and subjugated by it under the threat of going to hell if they did not comply. Huge impressive places of worship, complicated rituals and rules to follow as well as ornate clothing and accessories worn by the hierarchy are common in most all religions. All are designed to impress the importance and 'God given rights' of the clerics upon the populace.

That said, as far as I am concerned, people are welcome to follow any religion they want so long as they do not try to enforce their beliefs on others and do not involve harming others in any way.

 

The other question of course, is if God created the universe (or multiverse), which god? The Christian God (also the Jewish God and at least a cousin of Mohammed), one of the Indian gods or Buddha, or are we going more traditional with Odin, Zeus, Jupiter or one of those other chaps from ancient history, like Ra or Quetzalcoatl?

 

I think as humans we're not clever enough to understand, just like a cat or dog isn't able to comprehend that a world exists outside of its couple of mile radius...

 

This an excellent video on that subject


And this is an excellent follow-up video on the above and a critique on this thread

 

The strange thing is that they all turn up at Hillsborough on Saturday afternoons.

 

The only thing that makes me think "hmmm maybe" is the curvature argument. The whole ship disappearing over the horizon is provably false. With the naked eye a ship sailing out to sea does appear to go "over the curve" but if you take out a pair of binoculars, the ship reappears. Apparently the illusion of the ship dissapearing over the horizon is merely due to perspective.

 

So with a powerful enough pair of binoculars you'd be able to see the statue of Liberty from Cornwall? Or Dublin from West Wales perhaps? - that isn't too far. You can see both Ireland and Wales at the same time from the plane over the Irish Sea.