122. Ridicule of flat earthers takes place only because the Government and NASA promote anti-flat Earth theories

"Quoting Allen Daves, "‘If the Government or NASA had said to you that the Earth is stationary, imagine that.  And then imagine we are trying to convince people that 'no, no it's not stationary, it's moving forward at 32 times rifle bullet speed and spinning at 1,000 miles per hour.  'We would be laughed at! We would have so many people telling us 'you are crazy, the Earth is not moving!'  We would be ridiculed for having no scientific backing for this convoluted moving Earth theory.  And not only that but then people would say, 'oh then how do you explain a fixed, calm atmosphere and the Sun 's observable movement, how do you explain that?'  Imagine saying to people, 'no, no, the atmosphere is moving also but is somehow magically velcroed to the moving-Earth. The reason is not simply because the Earth is stationary. 'So what we are actually doing is what makes sense. We are saying that the moving-Earth theory is nonsense. The stationary-Earth theory makes sense and we are being ridiculed. You've got to picture it being the other way around to realize just how RIDICULOUS this situation is. This theory from the Government and NASA that the Earth is rotating and orbiting and leaning over and wobbling is absolute nonsense and yet people are clinging to it, tightly, like a teddy bear. They just can't bring themselves to face the possibility that the Earth is stationary though ALL the evidence shows it: we feel no movement, the atmosphere hasn’t been blown away, we see the Sun move from East-to-West, everything can be explained by a motionless Earth without bringing in all these assumptions to cover up previous assumptions gone bad .” "

What a bizarre argument!

Allen Daves is proposing that the ridicule of flat earthers takes place only because the Government and NASA promote anti-flat Earth theories.  Sorry to inform you Mr Daves, but the reason that you are ridiculed is because flat Earth ideas are ridiculous and without evidence.

If the Government or NASA said that the Earth is stationary we would not laugh at people saying that was false.  The Government and NASA would be laughed at because the scientific evidence tells us the Earth is not stationary and is so overwhelming and undeniable that they would immediately be denounced as ridiculous fantasists.

If their arguments depended on the existence of a global conspiracy of millions they would be laughed at louder still.

The only way for flat earthers not to be ridiculed is for them to present proper evidence.  Unfortunately "Common Sense" and conspiracy theories do not cut it as proper evidence.



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