I thought everyone knew?
The world is flat. It sits on the back of four giant elephants which ride through space on the back of an even more gigantic turtle.
How do you not know this?!
True. I agree with flat earthers. But only if they do not question the elephants and the turtle.
The turtle moves!
This postmodern age when everyone can have valid views on science, history, medicine or theology is just scary. What happened to respecting the views of experts?
I am not much in favour of "respecting the views of experts" over your own rational thinking. So-called experts can be completely wrong. It is always good to question what they say.
I'd not have anything against the flat earthers, if that was all they believed in.
The fact that many of them are in favour of destroying the environment (which is weird, as they don't believe in space or other planets, apparently, where do thy think we can flee to?) is what worries me.
There's a lack of critical thinking skills there.
The uneducated African who believes that the moon is just the size it appears to be, and the world is flat, because he can walk on it, has probably not thought much about the matter, as it doesn't affect his daily life. His not believing you without any proof because you allegedly are an expert is not the problem.
People who learnt in school all the reasons (which they can see themselves) why the round earth theory makes sense refusing to do any critical thinking, and instead just believing a so-called expert who tells them the earth is flat, are the problem.