This isn't a matter of "belief" as I can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the Earth is flat.
I am convinced that most flat-earthers are just internet trolls trying to get a rise out of people.
notbatman, sure. Badecker, likely, but Moneyhoney sounds like a believer.
This would be absolutely wonderful, except for the fact that there are many folks who can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the Earth is round(ish).
Actually no you/they can't because there's no evidence the Earth is a globe while the evidence it's flat is overwhelming.
In religion, the operation is like this. Religion, especially Judaism and Christianity, goes back to the beginning. No proofs are necessary, because the written works of religion contain eye-witness report references. Then science comes along and attempts to suggest and prove that religion is wrong. Religious people don't have the answers right out in the open, simply because they never needed to have the answers before. The result is (at least for a little while) that science rules over religion.
In a similar way, it has been proven that the earth is round(ish) long ago. In fact, the proofs for it have been forgotten (more or less) since the fact of roundness has been so overwhelmingly shown in the past. Then some jokers come along with new explanations and evidences that show that the earth is flat. Nobody rebuts because people are building on the proofs for roundness rather than examining the round proofs. For a while, the flat-earth proofs may seem logical.
When the religious people show how religion is right through science, science turns into political science... which operates through lies and embellishments, and anything that it takes to prove anything any which way. Perhaps flat-earth science will go this route, using political science when the science of round earth is brought into play. Perhaps flat-earth science will simply fade away. Perhaps flat earth will become the thing that it is becoming already, a cult.
