The Earth is a 6000 year old flat disk. The sun rises east and sets west.

[Stinky The Clown]

You see, the same person can lie and tell the actual truth.

Our job is to determine which is which.

This calls for healthy skeptcism and critical thinking skills.

As a good scientist deals only in facts and lets them lead him to the truth he seeks, so must we as political scientists.

Rank and rampant speculation helps no one.

I'm just sayin' ........

(edit to change 'Or' to 'Our' at the start if the second line)

[savemefromdumbya]

1. they used to burn at the stake round earth supporters

[Jack Rabbit]

10. I'm in a mood to nit pick. You're wrong.

They never burned round earth supporters. Thomas Aquinas made reference to the fact the earth is round in Summa Theologica. It was, as far as he was concerned, a trivial fact. Since few people traveled far from home in those days, and crossing the ocean was unthinkable, such knowledge was of no practical value, but it wasn't dangerous.

Eratosthenes first demonstrated mathematically that the world in round in the 3rd Century BC, even coming very close to giving its correct circumferance. Before that, Pythagoras, Plato and Aristotle all speculated that the earth was round; Aristotle knew that if some stars were visable in Egypt that could not be seen in Greece, and vice versa, and reasoned that this could only be possible on a curved surface.

Ptolomy of Alexandria also knew the world was round. He was the authority for geography in the post-classical world. Therefore, as long as Ptomolmy said so, no one was going to get in trouble for saying the world was round.

Now, heliocentric theory supporters weren't always so lucky.

[savemefromdumbya]

right, Bruno was a earth round the sun, not a round earth believer

you're right.

[savemefromdumbya]

13. right, Bruno was a earth round the sun, not a round earth believer

you're right.

[Cobalt-60]

17. Since the earliest days of sail

Sailors could see the earth was rounded from the way other ships always approached as if they were climbing a hill toward them.
The same effect could be seen approaching land.
Some of the ancients had pretty good numbers for the diameter of the earth.
It was only the Republican, er pardon me, the Church dominated dark ages that gave rise to all that flat earth stuff.

[derby378]

2. I used to be president of a skeptics' club in Texas

Way ahead of you there, man - only reason I'm not still president is because I'm now a precinct chair, and the club has 501(c)(3) status, and I want to avoid a possible conflict of interest.

[comradebillyboy]

8. damn right

"The Earth is a 6000 year old flat disk. The sun rises east and sets west."

Of course this is true, the Bible says so. All evidence to the contrary is the work of Satan to test your faith.

[MrCoffee]

3. The earth IS flat, bub.

Anyone who says otherwise is just a Galileo-lover.

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. Yep. Every map I have is flat. If the earth was round,

then atlases would be round. But they aren't.

Round-earth fuckers always get silent and change the subject when I give them that factoid.

[MrCoffee]

5. Hit 'em with some TRUTH!

and if that don't work, hit 'em with your atlas. those things is heavy.

[NoPasaran]

15. I can't speak about the whole world

But if you've ever driven across the Texas Panhandle, that part of the planet is definitely flat. Pancakeville, daddio!

[leftofthedial]

6. gravity is just a theory

so is time.

[MrCoffee]

7. Gravity is a myth...the Earth sucks.

[leftofthedial]

9. well, I know the wind blows from west to east in New Mexico

for a reason.

[KKKarl is an idiot]

11. Don't forget the sun burns hotter in the summer

[leftofthedial]

16. those helium balloons and the trash bags that get stuck in trees

prove that "gravity" is a lie

To explain these little anomalies to their theory, "scientists" had to invent their own deities--the "periodic table of the 'elements'" and "wind."

Yeah right. Gravity is bullshit.

Don't even get me started on "time."

[CrushTheDLC]

12. The Earth is NOT flat! It's shaped like a footstool

Because the Bible says Heaven is God's throne, and the Earth is his footstool. So there!

[iconoclastic cat]

14. And, besides witches, what also burns? nt

[obreaslan]

18. MORE WITCHES!!!!!!