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The flat Earth model is a view that the Earth's shape is a flat plane. This view contrasts with a view recorded around the 4th century BC by natural philosophers of Classical Greece that the Earth is spherical. Various cultures have had conceptions of a flat Earth, including ancient Babylon, Egypt, pre-Classical Greece and pre-17th century China. The modern belief that especially medieval Christianity believed in a flat earth has been referred to as The Myth of the Flat Earth. In 1945, it was listed by the Historical Association (of Britain) as the second of 20 in a pamphlet on common errors in history. Recent scholarship, particularly since the 1990s, has shown that with extraordinarily few exceptions "no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat" and that the prevailing view was of a spherical earth. Jeffrey Russell states that the modern view that people of the Middle Ages believed that the Earth was flat is said to have entered the popular imagination in the 19th century, thanks largely to the publication of Washington Irving's fantasy The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1828. Although these writers reject the idea of a flat earth, others such as the Flat Earth Society accept or promote the hypothesis. The hypothesis of a Flat Earth has long been contradicted by overwhelming evidence as well as by the modern understanding of planet formation and physics, and the scientific community now dismisses the notion as fantasy. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License What is the name and artist of the Flat Earth chips commercial? Q. The commercial features a woman following a piglet around her house and into the kitchen where she finds a bag of Flat Earth chips. I'm dying to know the name of song they used!! Asked by Catherine W - Sun Feb 17 15:06:29 2008 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments A. "Sunshine" by Orba Squara Answered by Julie H - Mon Feb 18 13:57:52 2008 Why is there a flat earth society? Q. Are people really that dumb? Asked by Ryan - Tue Aug 19 13:25:04 2008 - - 12 Answers - 0 Comments A. Why? Because some people are at war with science. They want to disbelieve so badly that they will take anything available to "prove" their anti-science position. They will conduct poor experiments that "prove" their position. They ignore ten thousand experiments put forth by science and accept their "data." If you think a flat earth is crazy how about a concave Earth. The Koreshans believe that the Earth and universe are contained within a concave sphere, or 'cell'. The Koreshans even conducted several experiments that "proved" their point. There are many biblical references that imply a flat Earth. One of the most direct is, Matthew 4:8, Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the… [cont.] Answered by David D - Tue Aug 19 14:14:57 2008 If the land on the Earth was flat, would the Earth still be round?
Q. If all the roads in the world were flat and straight and the land ALWAYS flat with no mountains or hills would the Earth still be round? Asked by Alison A - Sun Mar 30 19:44:56 2008 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments A. Yes. The Earth cannot be any other shape! - - - - - Why is the Earth round (planets and the sun, too)? It's the gravity, of course. Imagine Earth were liquid--consisting, say, only of water. Gravity would of course pull that water towards the center, and if any could flow closer to the center, it would do so. Therefore, if such an Earth were not a sphere--if some points were higher than the average--their water would quickly flow down. Water would also flow into any valley deeper than the average and fill it up. The final shape MUST be a sphere. Only then does every point on the surface have the same distance from the center. Gas planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune behave the same way, since gas flows like a fluid. The… [cont.] Answered by unknown - Sun Mar 30 20:56:48 2008 From Yahoo Answer Search: "Flat Earth" See also:
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