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  Flat earth vs round earth

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  my 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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  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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  The Scientific Method

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  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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  The Scientific Method

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  The mere fact that you ask about the discovery of new theories shows that you don't understand your own objection.

  Not sure if you are obtuse or trolling?
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  The Scientific Method

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  Dunning - Kruger effect.
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  The Scientific Method

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  And more postmodern bullshit from SBF. So fucking boring.
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  The Scientific Method

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  perhaps you can illuminate me?

  Perhaps you can do your own research.

  All scientific advances are going to be incremental. The huge leaps forward are less and less likely with the passing of time. Obviously!
  
  
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  Flat earth vs round earth

  by Jrjw in

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  2. beliefs

  my 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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  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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  The Scientific Method

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  captaingirl - The progress in medical genetics in recent decades is astonishing.

  If you can't think of many more advances in human knowledge you are just not paying attention.
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  Flat earth vs round earth

  by Jrjw in

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  my 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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  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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  The Scientific Method

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  Scientist thinking
  Scientist has exciting idea
  Data says idea is bollocks
  Scientist sad