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Re: The flat Earth

On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Hugh Haskell wrote:

This will blow your mind. I'm citing this in phys-L. Looks OK to me.

http://www.creationresearch.org/creation_matters/97/cm9711.html

(The first article!)

Leigh

Interesting. As you say, the first article looks OK factually, or at
least astronomically. I don't know much about his historiography. It
seems to me that he has set up a few straw men along the way.

Quite a few funamentalist Christian groups believed in the flat earth
because the bible described "ends of the earth" and "four corners of the
earth." Perhaps this belief was recent, not ancient? Nevertheless, it
appears as if the Creationists are trying to distance themselves from the
previous error of many of there bretheren.

As on Newgroups, when an error is exposed, the person or group who is in
the wrong will often silently change their assertions, and then loudly
claim that they had never been wrong in the past. This is part of most
"paradigm shift" events. People are so embarassed to have been on the
losing side, that they will attempt to convince everyone (even themselves)
that their previous errors never existed. Inspection of history exposes
the self-protective lies.



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