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Most atheists say that people in the middle age thought Earth was flat, which is false claim and only supporting
their own ego and world view which are so fragile that they need to be constantly defended even by lies.  :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth)

"The myth that people in the Middle Ages thought the earth is flat appears to date from the 17th century as part of the campaign by Protestants against Catholic teaching. But it gained currency in the 19th century, thanks to inaccurate histories such as John William Draper's History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science (1874) and Andrew Dickson White's A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (1896). Atheists and agnostics championed the conflict thesis for their own purposes, but historical research gradually demonstrated that Draper and White had propagated more fantasy than fact in their efforts to prove that science and religion are locked in eternal conflict.[8]"

Maybe the world really is flat.  We just preceive it as being egg like.  After all the universe from what some say fold on itsself.  Would and may give a preception of the world being round.   LoL.

Anyone with basic education would know about Eratosthenes, who calculated the Earth's radius in Hellenist Egypt before Jesus. But if it was an atheist hoax, it was too successful since now the Christians on this forum have embraced it.

Why is there such an insurgence of flat-earthers in 2015? : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1127771.msg11913828#msg11913828

Because the earth is a very large sphere, the surface seems to be flat for us small humans. As you leave the earth, you notice that the earth is very large and we are very small

Besides, flat feet aren't really completely flat.    ::)

The myth of the Flat Earth is the modern misconception that the prevailing cosmological view during the Middle Ages saw the Earth as flat, instead of spherical.

What was the inaccurate histories that were spread by Draper and such? How did it spread so broadly? Why has the "real truth" not been shared broadly in schools?

We all live in a yellow submarine.

I think the vsauce video posted in another flat earth thread i found on here was a nice way to explain the flat earth situation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNqNnUJVcVs

Stop pushing things over to the people listening to reason, not faith (there are exceptions). There are actually people right now that think that the world is flat! Are you really trying to tell me that people didn't think it was flat back then?  ::)

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That is basic education? No. I doubt that more than a handful people know that.

I just watched that video yesterday and was trying to get it out of my head, lol.