Why there are people who still believe that the Earth is flat, my personal opinion is that it can be true.![]
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To be fair, the weight of the balance is slanted overwhelmingly against those who believe that the Earth is flat.
In addition to the full body of long-standing scientific evidence, there are graphic samples.
The photo that forever changed the way we see the Earth
For example, the photo that is known as "Earthrise" or "Exit of the Earth", in which our clearly globular blue planet appears, has already turned 50 years old. And this is just one of the many images sent by satellites since then.
So, how can it be that in the 21st century there are people who genuinely think that our planet is not round?
Christine Garwood, author of "Tierra Plana: the history of an infamous idea" affirms that it is "a fallacy of history" that everyone from Antiquity to Darkness believed that the Earth was flat and that they only disabused themselves of that "crazy idea" "when Christopher Columbus managed to reach America" without falling on the edge of the world. "
"With extraordinary few exceptions, no one educated in the history of Western civilization from the third century onwards believed that the Earth was flat," said historian Jeffrey Burton Russell in 1997.
For his part, the eminent scientist Stephen Jay Gould wrote in the same year that "there was never a period of 'flat-ground obscurantism' among the scholars." The Greek knowledge of sphericity never disappeared and all medieval scholars accepted the roundness of the Earth as an established fact of cosmology. "
The change occurred in the 19th century.
Escépticos
Con el ascenso del racionalismo científico, que parecía minar la autoridad de la Biblia, algunos pensadores cristianos decidieron lanzar un ataque contra la ciencia establecida.
Un inventor inglés llamado Samuel Birley Rowbotham (1816-1884) asumió el pseudónimo de "Parallax" y fundó la nueva escuela de "Astronomía Zetetica" (que significa "escéptico", del griego antiguo zētētikós, "inquisitivo").
Rowbotham recorrió Inglaterra argumentando que la Tierra era un disco estacionario y el Sol estaba a sólo 400 millas de distancia.
En 1870, el holandés John Hampen, famoso por encabezar polémicas, escribió acerca de la Tierra plana y describió al científico Isaac Newton -autor de la teoría de la gravedad- como "un borracho o un demente".
Las ideas de Hampden como las de muchos terraplanistas se basaban en la religión: muchas de las pruebas de su teoría provenían de las Sagradas Escrituras.
La ciencia y la religión quedaron enfrentadas.
The lie of the flat Earth was ammunition against the creationists. The argument was simple and powerful, though not elegant: 'Look how stupid these Christians are. Those who deny evolution are the same ones who for at least a thousand years have denied that the Earth is round. "
So, the religious built the flat Earth theory to challenge science or did the Darwinists invented that creationists had that theory to discredit them?
Everything is debatable, but even the idea that the Earth is globular? Some seem to think so.