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You're absolutely right! My bad! I made an error thinking that the fall away is linear. It is, in fact, geometric. The curvature of the earth is 7.98 inches per mile SQUARED! So the first mile is 8 inches, the second mile would be 32 inches, the third would be 72 inches and so on. If 3 miles...

Beer AFTER!!! Not before! :cheers:

I've mentioned this once before but since we're talking about measuring the curvature of the Earth I thought I'd bring it up again. A really good experiment to measure the curvature of the Earth, that anyone could do with minimal expense is this... Find a lake. Pretty much any lake will do but...

Exactly! It gets way worse when you realize that minuscule number is nine times bigger than the real number!

There are at least two things wrong with this thought experiment. 1. Roads are built by people who can introduce more flatness than is there naturally. Therefore roads are not the best things to use for such an experiment. It would be better to use something we know is "level" such as the...

This is simply false. First of all, the vasy majority of land based projected are on a scale too small to worry about the curvature of the Earth. But on large scale surveys, corrections are made for the curvature of the earth. Such corrections are more noticable the further north you go. On...

I get that but it wouldn't hurt for you to modify your arguments based on the arguments I make. You should keep a scorecard. It would be somewhere in the neighborhood of :Clete: 230 :devil: 0 You haven't even established that it was any influence, must less an important one. My bet is that his...

I'm very glad you've brought up Aristotle and Plato because it gives me an opportunity to make one of my recent points in a way that I'm hoping will reach you. You and I reject the doctrine of Immutability and other related doctrines. We often make arguments that have to do with the fact that...

All of which have been refuted on this thread. Well, not "ALL"! There seems to be an infinite number is irrationalities these folks can come up with. That one video has two hundred arguments that are all 100% wrong! I don't even know how you pull that off! I mean how can you make 200 false...

I cannot believe that you are really this incapable of following my argument. I didn't say that you were actually calling his geometry into question! You are not making the argument that you appearant think your are making. You are saying his cosmology is wrong but the only reason you gave for...

Excellent point! Why not say that the Earth isn't actually here at all? I've seen some suggest that the moon doesn't exist. That it's a hologram or something. They cite the fact that there are no photographs of the moon prior to 1950 or something as proof. Never mind the countless paintings...

From what I've read, and I'm sure there is varied opinions on this but basically their point is that the only explanation for the Earth, as it exists (i.e. flat) is God. In other words, they not only don't need to explain the mechanics of it, the lack of explanation is the point! If the world is...

Do you see what I mean! This is a bunch of crap, David! You begged me to debate this. BEGGED ME! So I do and you flatly IGNORE arguments that take me hours to write up and to edit. Rather than responding to arguments, all you do is find more horse manure to present that I'm supposed to spend...

Dave, you've gotta start reading more carefully. I didn't make that argument, YOU DID! Your argument was basically that because Pythagoras was a pagan, his cosmology is false. But you made no rational connection between the premise (paganism) and the conclusion (false cosmology). Therefore, the...

I've been, reluctantly, reading some flat Earth nonsense (sorry, there's just not any other word for it) on various websites and I've come to the conclusion that the entire idea is indeed Satanic, or at the very least, demonic. And I'm 100% not kidding about that. Here's the best example of...

So what's the form of your argument here? Pythagoras was a pagan therefore everything he said was false and everything everyone said that can be at all linked to him is also false. Are you intentionally calling into question the validity of the pythagorian theorum or was that just an...

I am a rational being, that's who. I can decide what is and is not a rational worldview that same way I decide that anything else is rational, by reason. That which is not verifiable is not science, Dave. I'm not I understand the point you're making here. Are you equating the fact that the...

Dave, You are not responding to the arguments presented. All you do is present more lunacy that needs to be refuted which you then ignore (mostly) and add even more lunacy. There is a name for this technique. It's called muddying the water. People with rational worldviews don't need such...

Allow you to continue to think that evolution is observable.

You think I'm stupid. That puts me at the advantage.