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Re:Notes from a Flat Earth Conference by erdos4d on Thursday August 20, 2020 @12:04PM (#24224666)
I just don't get this at all. Could you explain how they refute things like ISS camera footage showing a clearly round earth with the station going around it? Are you saying that they just refute science outright because it conflicts with their teleology beliefs? If that is the case, they actually are idiots, regardless of how erudite their arguments may be.
Re:Notes from a Flat Earth Conference by burlesona on Thursday August 20, 2020 @12:44PM (#24225192)
Young Earth Creationism isn’t the same as Flat Earth.

An argument I’ve heard before is that God made the universe relatively recently (10k years ago or so) but with the appearance of age. Something like God “fast forwarded” through time to skip to the part where humans started recording history. In that theory both the majority of modern science and a strangely literal interpretation of the Bible can both be true at the same time. The scientists are unable to measure that God “fast-forwarded” the universe because he didn’t leave any evidence of it.

In my experience the majority of Christians don’t hold that view, but instead see Genesis as metaphorical, and thus it actually fits in rather well with the current Big Bang model. So well, in fact, that early on a lot of scientists rejected the Big Bang as “creationist rubbish.”

Re:Notes from a Flat Earth Conference by cupofinsane on Thursday August 20, 2020 @12:22PM (#24224867)
They say it's CGI and dismiss it