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Motion is only meaningful relative to other objects. The air is NOT moving relative to the car. The air IS moving with the car relative to the road. No, that isn't it. It doesn't matter whether the air even exists. If we happened to be creatures that lived on a planet with no atmosphere or if...

Of course, you can! It's called wind and weather and atmospheric pressure. You live in an ocean of air. The former. It holds it, Dave! Clouds are floating on more dense air beneath them. Bird and planes move through the atmosphere in such a way as to create lift which opposes the pull of...

From this silly video (Sorry Dave! I cannot keep from ridiculing it. It's is mind-numbing stupidity.) 1. The horizon always looks perfectly flat, 360 degrees around an observer, regardless of altitude. FALSE: An observer above 35000 ft with a near cloudless field of view of 60 degrees or...

What? Come on, Dave! Are you serious? Try swimming across a flowing river and see if you don't both go across the river and down steam with the current. This is really really simple stuff here. What's going on with you? Relative to the Earth's axis it is, yes! It still has to travel through...

Your testimony is! Just as the con artists on the Trinity Broadcasting Network do damage to the faith, so also does any Christian who stubbornly ignores sound reason in favor of blind belief, no matter the topic. The truth is rational! If you are seen accepting a cosmology that is clearly...

I'll try again. We should see the movement of the Earth relative to what? We see it's movement all the time. The sun rises and sets as does the rest of the things we see in the sky. It doesn't feel like the Earth is moving because we are moving with it but that doesn't change the fact that...

The marksman is wrong. That is NOT the Coriolis effect - period. He is flatly wrong. My bet is that there isn't any marksman anywhere that has ever said that. I totally believe that such an argument was put forward on those videos but that doesn't mean that any real marksman said such a thing...

Do yourself a favor and don't call an argument "absolutely true" until you've run it past me first. ;) Not so. The Coriolis effect is the result of the conservation of angular momentum. It cannot be "negated" except by a force acting in the opposite direction. What is it that you propose is...

Pretty sure that they're the same people who publish the flat fold-up maps! They're clearly in on the conspiracy though! P.S. Your avatar is terrific, by the way! One of my favorites I've ever seen.

He doesn't have it wrong. Special Relativity states that time (all of it - past, present and future) exists. This is fundamentally fatalistic. There are many people who have made this and similar arguments for decades... The Block Universe of Special Relativity This is not be taken to...

What's the motive, Dave? Why would anyone care to keep the flatness of the Earth a secret or to trick the world into thinking its a sphere? Who benefits and how/why?

Dave, I started the first video you linked too and made it all of two minutes before I had to turn it off. You have got to be joking! You cannot possibly be taking these videos seriously! The Mississippi River would have to ascend up hill to reach the Gulf of Mexico? Seriously?! Come on...

It doesn't. A hot object falls at exactly the same rate as any other object. The variables are things like air resistance and boyancy which can be effected by heat. NO ONE has ever said any such thing. The reason tides aren't observable in ponds is because its too small a body of water to...

Very well, I'll watch at least part of it.

The same way the air in your car (and you as well) moves with your car when you're driving it. The atmosphere is part of the planet, Dave. It all moves together. It all spins together on it's axis and it all orbits the sun - together. This is not at all a difficult concept. I am seriously...

Sorry for the delayed response to you last several posts, I've been away over the Christmas holiday. The above post does not address what I said in rebuttal to one of, if not the only actual argument you've made on this thread. And nothing else you've said on this thread has been of sufficient...

If I promise to watch these videos will you begin to respond substantively to my arguments?

This is not an answer. And I think you know that it isn't. You've always struck me as an intellectually honest guy who isn't afraid to think and to shed religious beliefs when sound reason requires it. Why the blind faith in a flat Earth?

This was just released yesterday! I suppose it is just the latest in the ongoing spherical earth conspiracy.... This compressed view of the entire sky visible from Hawaii by the Pan-STARRS1 Observatory is the result of half a million exposures, each about 45 seconds in length, taken over a...

Density is a function of mass. The more mass in a given volume, the denser it is and therefore the more it "bends the four-dimensional space-time continuum".