pleaserecycle said:
I should have phrased my bolded text as, "At this point we don't have any evidence showing that the earth is round...". My point being that I can understand how someone believes the earth is flat because we mostly experience a "flat" earth. It seems especially plausible when we start thinking about why cross-country railroad pieces are flat. Could flat railroad pieces exist in a round world? I don't think the solution is very intuitive, but we can demonstrate it by zooming into the edge of a circle and prove it using mathematics. Even so, we haven't debunked a flat or round earth; we have only shown that flat railroad pieces can exist in both. |
How do flat earthers explain this?
Or timezones, gps, different night sky in the southern hemisphere, seasons, etc. Btw railroad pieces aren't flat, they bend, how do trains go around corners or up hills otherwise ;) I don't know what is taught in school though. My kids know the earth is a globe and about gravity although they probably don't fully understand it yet. They get their science taught through games. Like centrifugal force, swinging a bucket around on a rope so the water stays in. Not hat much of a leap to go to the reverse to understand gravity as a force with a central point.
