If this subject is of interest, you might enjoy the book, Longitude - TD
Outstanding book. I have it on the shelf behind me right now.
Anti-science dullards are missing out so much on the awesomeness of reality.
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315Flat earth vs round earth
by Jrjw inmy brother has been talking about the earth being flat and some big conspiracy going on to make people beieve otherwise.
what are people's thoughts on this?.
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cofty
No theories are not discovered. Facts are discovered. Theories are meta-narratives that explain facts, laws and observations. They are constructed and have enormous explanatory power. 99.9999% of science is the hard work of discovering the little details that lead incrementally to progress. That process continues to develop exponentially.
Your lack of knowledge of that progress tells us something about your intellectual laziness but nothing at all about science.
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Flat earth vs round earth
by Jrjw inmy brother has been talking about the earth being flat and some big conspiracy going on to make people beieve otherwise.
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cofty
So the big question is, why are YOU afraid to look outside of your accepted worldview indoctrination now?
I have spent more than 20 years considering all sorts of ideas. No need to put words in upper-case to get my attention by the way. Facts always catch my attention. Shouting bullshit doesn't.
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by Jrjw inmy brother has been talking about the earth being flat and some big conspiracy going on to make people beieve otherwise.
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kairos - I have never extracted DNA but I believe it really exists and that it consists of 4 nucleotides. I have never seen photosynthesis at a molecular level but I believe that leaves do consume carbon dioxide and produce oxygen and sugars. I have never visited a deep sea vent but I do believe they sustain a strange ecology, I have never visited a tectonic boundary but I do believe continents are moving.
The possibility of these things being a conspiracy of lies is infinitely more unlikely than that they are true.
Conspiracy theorists are the most gullible people on earth.
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