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The Earth Is Flat and We Didn’t Land on the Moon – Way of Life Literature – The Earth Is Flat and We Didn’t Land on the Moon November 28, 2017 Way of Life Literature, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061 – 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org The following is excerpted from “Is the Earth Flat?” by Dr. Danny Faulkner, Answers In Genesis, May 24, 2016:

“Once one postulates a flat earth, it leads to other preposterous claims. If the earth is flat rather than a sphere, then it is inconceivable that we have ventured into space. In the previously mentioned interview with Eric Dubay, he denied that there are any satellites orbiting the earth or that astronauts have gone into space. He claims that all photos and videos taken from space are faked. For example, Dubay says that the famous photograph of the earth taken by the Apollo 17 astronauts is a computer-generated image. Of course, this line of argumentation automatically requires belief that the Apollo moon landings were hoaxes. However there are good reasons to believe that we really did land on the moon during the Apollo program.

“Christians who want to entertain this nonsense ought to know that during his six-month stay on the International Space Station in 2006, astronaut Jeffrey Williams photographed the earth more than any astronaut in history. Some of Williams’ photos are found in his book, The Work of His Hands: A View of God’s Creation from Space. Many of the photos show that the earth is spherical. It ought to be apparent from the book’s title that Williams is a Christian, but the book’s content makes it abundantly clear. Hence, to doubt that the earth is spherical or that astronauts have gone into space is to accuse a Christian brother of perpetuating a tremendous lie.

“But Williams is not the only Christian to have gone into space: Jim Irwin and Charles Duke were among the twelve men who walked on the moon. Recently, I asked Charles Duke to respond to those who think that the earth is flat and those who think that we faked the Apollo moon landing. This is what he wrote:

“‘I was the lunar module pilot on the Apollo 16 mission to the moon. We launched from KSC (Kennedy Space Center) in Florida on April 16, 1972. We left earth orbit for our three day trip to the moon about three hours later. As we maneuvered our spacecraft to dock with our lunar module, the earth came into view about 20,000 miles away. It was an awesome sight. As you can see in the photo, it is obviously a sphere and not a flat circle. As we journeyed to the moon, we would look out our windows and see a smaller earth, and each time we would see different landmasses, so it was obviously rotating on its axis. Some people are questioning the fact that we landed on the moon, alleging that it is a big hoax. Well, we did land on the moon six times, and the evidences are overwhelming. If we faked the landing, why did we fake it 6 times? One needs only to look at the photos from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter from my mission. The photos of our landing site shows the descent stage, the lunar rover, the experiments package, and the tracks we left on the moon. Every landing site has similar evidence. There are many other proofs that conclusively show that Apollo actually landed on the moon six times.’

“Again, Christians who think that the earth is flat or that men never set foot on the moon are effectively accusing several Christian brothers of lying about one of the biggest things that ever happened in their lives. Are the Apollo moon landing deniers prepared to make this accusation?”

For more about a “flat earth” see the following –

“Does the Bible Teach that the Earth Is Flat?” by Dr. Danny Faulkner

“The Flat Earth Myth” by Dr. Jonathan Sarfati

“The Flat-Earth Myth and Creationism” by Jerry Bergman

“Is the Earth Flat?” by Dr. Danny Faulkner

“No, the Earth Is Not Flat” Interview with Dr. Henry Richter, developer of the first U.S. satellite
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Most people have thought about the shape of the earth. From their earliest days in school, teachers and textbooks have taught students that the earth is spherical. For those who dwell on this matter and begin to question the earth’s spherical shape, seeds of doubt quickly sprout into full disbelief. Often, people will respond with the observation that photos from space clearly show a spherical earth. However, we know that photos can easily be photoshopped or faked. And these types of photos and videos (starting with the Apollo space missions) have been available only for a little more than a half century. But evidences for a spherical earth go back much further than this.

Evidence of Our Spherical Earth

Earth’s Shadow

Without photographs from space, how would people in the ancient world figure out that the earth is spherical? Well, in the sixth century BC, Pythagoras taught that the earth was spherical, although none of his writings exist that explains how he came to this conclusion. Aristotle (384–322 BC) was among the first to write down the fact of our planet being a round sphere. He observed lunar eclipses and correctly realized that the cause of lunar eclipses (which can happen only with a full moon) is the shadow of the earth crawling across the moon. And because the edge of the earth’s shadow is always a portion of a circle, the earth’s shadow on the moon must also be a circle. If the earth were shaped like a disk, it could only cast a circular shadow for lunar eclipses that occur at midnight. However, the earth’s shadow would be an ellipse, a line, or a rectangle when a lunar eclipse occurs at sunrise or sunset. But during a lunar eclipse, the earth’s shadow is always a circle regardless of when the eclipse occurs. Regardless of positioning, there is only one shape that produces a circular shadow—a sphere. You can easily see this if you point a flashlight at a wall and use a circular dish and a ball. The dish will only project a circular shadow when oriented face-on to the light, and when it is edge on, or at any other angle, it will produce a line or ellipse.

Visibility of the Stars

The North Star is within a degree of the north celestial pole. The stars, sun, and moon appear to spin around the north celestial pole, causing the north celestial pole to remain fixed in the sky.

At northern locations, the altitude of the North Star is noticeably higher in the sky than at southern locations. Think of the North Star in the sky in Minnesota versus where it would be in Florida. This placement can happen only if north-south motion is along an arc. Furthermore, the North Star (Polaris) is not visible in locations more than one degree south of the equator, nor is the Southern Cross visible in most of the Northern Hemisphere. This makes no sense in a flat-earth model but comports perfectly with a spherical earth.

Curvature of the Earth

The earth is curved in both the north-south direction and in the east-west direction, which is the reason why Time Zones were implemented. For example, there is a time difference of three hours between the east and west coasts of the United States (and 4–5 hours, respectively, if Alaska and Hawaii are factored in). So the sun rises and sets approximately three hours earlier in Boston than it does in Los Angeles People who have flown between the east and west coasts of the United States understand this because not only does their watch (or phone) display the time difference of three hours, but their body notices the difference as well, which is what the term jetlag was invented to describe.

But before such rapid travel, how did people realize this? Dr. Danny Faulkner explains,

Such rapid transportation was not possible in ancient times, but the ancients could see this time difference a different way. A lunar eclipse obviously must happen simultaneously for everyone on earth, but it will be different times at different locations. For instance, a lunar eclipse may start shortly after sunset in the eastern Mediterranean, such as in Greece. However, in the western Mediterranean, such as in Spain, the moon would already be in eclipse when the moon rose that night. This means that the lunar eclipse began before sunset/moonrise in Spain, but after sunset/moonrise in Greece. Communication was such in the ancient world that people were aware of this effect. This shows that the earth is curved in the east-west direction. If the earth is curved in both the north-south and east-west direction, the most likely shape of the earth is a sphere.

Ship Sources

Pliny the Elder noticed and recorded that ships’ hulls disappeared before their masts did as ships sailed away, an occurrence that happens only if the earth is spherical. Relatedly, someone perched in a crow’s nest high above a ship’s deck can spot land or other ships before people on the deck can. If the earth were flat, there would be no advantage to being in a crow’s nest, as you should be able to see all land and ships from the deck.

A similar thing can be observed on land. On the eastern shore of Green Bay, Wisconsin, is the Door Peninsula. More than 20 miles away is Northern Michigan. If you stand on the beach at Green Bay, you cannot see Northern Michigan. But, if you climb the bluffs above the beach, you can spot the shoreline of Northern Michigan, which is possible only if the earth is spherical.

“Support” for a Flat Earth

The “evidences” produced by the flat-earth crowd are negative. The evidence attempts to “prove” that the earth is not spherical. However, the Bedford Level Experiment, is a positive “evidence”—i.e., an attempt to directly show that the earth is flat. Dr. Danny Faulkner provides a great explanation of his experiment:

In 1838, Samuel Rowbotham claimed to have conducted an experiment on the Old Bedford River near Norfolk, England. The Bedford Level is a six-mile stretch of the Old Bedford River that is straight, allowing an uninterrupted view along the six miles. Furthermore, there is no gradient there, so that portion of the river amounts to a slow-flowing drainage canal. . . . Rowbotham waded into the river and used a telescope held eight inches above the water to observe a rowboat with a five-foot high mast row away. Rowbotham claimed that he could see the mast when it was six miles away, even though the spherical earth required that the top of the mast be about eleven feet below his horizon (as viewed from eight inches above the water). Rowbotham concluded that the earth must be flat. . . . Rowbotham, using a pseudonym [“Parallax”], published his results in a pamphlet titled Zetetic Astronomy in 1849, which he expanded into a book in 1865.

In 1870, John Hampden offered a prize to anyone who could show a convex curvature of a large body of water, as a spherical earth would require. Alfred Russell Wallace took the challenge but was apparently aware of Rowbotham’s methodologies and erroneous result. Wallace altered the technique a bit to avoid the known effects of refraction. He placed two identical objects at different locations along the Bedford Level. Wallace examined each object from a telescope mounted on a bridge. He found that the nearer object appeared higher than the more distant one, consistent with the results predicted by a spherical earth, as the density of air decreases with increasing height. This causes a slight change in the index of refraction in air: rays of light passing close to the earth’s surface are bent downward. This makes distant objects appear higher than they actually are when viewed from close to the earth’s surface. Many such experiments since 1838 that minimize the effect of refraction give results consistent with a spherical earth.

What Has the Church Historically Taught About the Shape of the Earth?

Contrary to the common misconception, the medieval church did not believe or teach that the earth was flat. Thomas Aquinas (AD 1225–1274) introduced Aristotelian thought into medieval church teaching. Aristotle (fourth century BC) and subsequent Greek philosophers and mathematicians clearly taught that the earth was spherical. In the early second century BC, Eratosthenes measured the circumference of the spherical earth to a very close approximation. The works of Aristotle, Eratosthenes, and other scholars were all copied by monks and were widely available and discussed in the late medieval period by clergymen and well-educated people, and this continued through the transition to the Renaissance. The historical record is a clear testimony, so why do so many people believe today (and ironically even by some in the church) that the church of old taught a flat earth? Dr. Danny Faulkner gives an explanation:

This misconception is easily traced to the writings of two late nineteenth-century skeptics, John William Draper and Andrew Dickson White, who invented the conflict thesis. The conflict thesis [a humanist tenet] holds that religion in general, and Christianity in particular, held back progress. The contention of the conflict thesis was that the medieval Europe was gripped with superstition (Christianity) that prevented intellectual advancement, and it was only after man’s reason [secular humanism] reasserted itself during the Renaissance that man slowly became unshackled from religious dogma, bringing about the Enlightenment.

The story of Christopher Columbus was also mythologized by the promoters of the conflict thesis. Modern people believe that during Columbus’ time, most of society thought the earth was flat. According to this narrative, Columbus, one of the few people who thought the earth was spherical, understood that he could sail westward from Europe to reach India and China on a spherical earth. As the story goes, Columbus had to contend for his expedition against strong objections from those who thought that the earth was flat in order to get support (a complete and utter fabrication of the facts). Once Columbus managed to complete a voyage to the New World and returned to Europe, people supposedly realized that Columbus was correct all along—the world was round and not flat.

But in reality, the opposition to his proposed journey was not how possible it was to reach Asia by going westward but rather how logical the journey was. The belief was that the westward voyage across the Atlantic between Europe and Asia was vast, with little or no land in between. At the time of Columbus, voyages over open water were very risky, and ships typically sailed no more than three days out of sight of land. A voyage westward across the Atlantic Ocean (presumably to Asia) would have required months, with no opportunity to resupply or be rescued along the way if problems developed.

It was known at the time how long it took to sail from Spain to the Orient by hugging the coast of Africa, rounding the Cape of Good Hope, and sailing up eastern Africa and then past India. Keep in mind that the Suez Canal was not yet in existence. But going to the Orient via the Atlantic Ocean would be much longer since the Panama Canal did not exist at that time. For Columbus to have made it to China, he would have had to sail across the open Atlantic, circumvent South America, and traverse the much vaster Pacific Ocean. And even though maps at that time were more crude and less accurate, most educated people knew that the distance was much greater by going west to the Orient.

History contradicts the popular story of Columbus. A significant amount of the work that supports a flat earth today uncritically rehearses and adds to the false history. The flat-earth movement began in the mid-nineteenth century, the same time that the conflict thesis was being developed. While the Bible was being ridiculed by skeptics for supposedly teaching a flat earth, early flat-earthers blindly accepted this false claim. Coincidentally, Christians’ recent interest in a flat earth has been fueled by the erroneous belief that the Bible teaches that the earth is flat. But examining the Scriptures to see what they say, we find that flat-earth believers do not discern the text any better than they discern history.

Does the Bible Teach That the Earth Has an Edge?

Any person who knows shapes understands that a sphere does not have an edge. We can travel around a sphere forever and never reach a boundary (and not have to worry about “falling off”). By contrast, if the earth were flat, an edge must exist somewhere. However, Bible skeptics are fond of producing the phrase “four corners of the earth” (when not applying to a physical object like the ark of the covenant or an altar), though it appears only four times in the Bible (Isaiah 11:12; Ezekiel 7:2; Revelation 7:1, 20:8). Ultimately, skeptics claim that this phraseology must mean a flat, square earth—“proving” that the Bible teaches a flat earth. But contextually, those references point to cardinal directions and could just as easily have been translated “from the north, south, east and west.”

Biblical critics allege that the Bible is not inspired because the Bible writers “believed” one of the flat-earth cosmologies of the ancient world; however, the writers who penned the Bible merely reflected the worldview of their times. Some examples of flat-earth cosmologies from the ancient world exist, but they always show a flat, round earth. Because a circle was considered a much more perfect shape than a square, none of the ancient flat-earth cosmologies involved a square earth. If the Bible presented a square, flat earth, then it would have been at odds with every other ancient flat-earth cosmology. Therefore, this attempt by skeptics to claim that the Bible teaches a flat earth does not square (pun intended) with the facts of history.

If the Verses That Mention the Earth’s Four Corners Do Not Refer to a Flat Earth, Then to What Do They Refer?

Revelation 7:1 speaks of four angels standing on the four corners of the earth and restraining the four winds of the earth. The frequent poetic elements and use of imagery in the book of Revelation are agreed to by even the most ardent students of hyper-literal interpretation of the Bible.

As mentioned previously, the four winds are the four cardinal directions from which winds blow: north, south, east, and west. We even use this terminology today, when we say that the wind is “out of the west.” The repetition of the number four (“four angels . . . four corners . . . four winds”) is important as it ties each angel and each corner with one of the four compass directions. Dr. Danny Faulkner elaborates further,

The phrase “four corners of the earth” probably was an idiom in the Apostle John’s time, much as it is in English today, referring to every distant location on the earth. This is the meaning from the context of Revelation 20:7–8, the other occurrence of the phrase “four corners of the earth” in the book of Revelation. . . . It is probable that the English idiomatic understanding of “the four corners of the earth,” referring to the remotest parts of the earth, stems from [these verses and from Isaiah 11:12] . . . the third appearance of this phrase in the Bible. Its use there is generally understood to be idiomatic.

And the reference in Ezekiel 7:2 is strictly speaking of the “four corners” of the divided kingdom of Israel, which in no way supports a flat earth.

Why the “Four Corners” Argument Is Rarely Used by Flat-Earthers

While flat-earthers use these verses, many do not—probably because they recognize that a square earth with corners does not agree with their model of a round, flat earth, which is a notable problem. How can a Christian who earnestly believes that this is what the Bible teaches handle these three verses?

If the phrase “ends of the earth” (which appears 28 times in the King James Version) were taken literally, that phrasing would propose that the earth has an edge, ruling out a spherical earth. However, each of these 28 instances of the phrase “ends of the earth” in context shows that this phrase is used as an idiomatic expression. This phrase often is used to speak of the people who inhabit these remote places, not of the distant parts of the earth itself (e.g., Psalm 67:7, 98:3; Isaiah 45:22). It is a poor argument that this phrase indicates that the earth is flat and has a physical edge.

Is the Firmament a Dome over the Earth?

Flat-earth cosmology holds that a dome covers a circular, flat earth, with its edge resting on the earth beyond the ice wall of Antarctica, that the stars are affixed to this dome, and that the sun and moon are above the earth but beneath the dome. People have called this a “snow-globe cosmology.” Flat-earthers claim that this is the cosmology that the Bible teaches. Let us examine the Scriptures that supposedly support this cosmology.

Dr. Danny Faulkner notes,

Key in this discussion is the firmament. The Hebrew word rāqîa‘ is translated as firmament in the King James Version. It appears a total of 17 times in the Old Testament, with over half of the occurrences (9) in chapter 1 of Genesis alone. The word is a noun that derives from the Hebrew root rq‘, meaning to stamp out. An example of this action is to stamp or pound a metal into thin sheets . . .

Unfortunately, some people reason that since this is an action frequently done to a metal, the thing being stretched out must have some physical property common with metals. Metals often are hard, so, according to this reasoning, the rāqîa‘ must be hard. But it is questionable if the rāqîa‘ is something that is hard. It is more likely that the intended meaning of rāqîa‘ is related to the process of stamping out, not a physical property of the thing subjected to the process. The process has the effect of spreading out a substance [as in 2 Samuel 22:43] or possibly making the substance thin. This is why many more modern translations of the Bible render rāqîa‘ as expanse rather than firmament.

From this brief glimpse at several Old Testament passages, there is no clear evidence that the rāqîa‘ is a solid dome over the earth. Rather, it likely is what we today would call much of the earth’s atmosphere as well as outer space.

Conclusion

It is a common belief today that the Bible presents the cosmology as a hard dome over a flat earth supported by the “pillars of the earth” (as mentioned in 1 Samuel 2:8 and implied in Job 9:6). But ironically, proponents of flat earth never discuss Job 26:11, which mentions the pillars of heaven (if literal, they would have to go from the earth up to the “dome”). Nor do they mention Job 26:7, which states God “hangs the earth on nothing.” They are careful to pick and choose which Bible verses they use to support their position and ignore ones that don’t.

To make matters worse, Christians who endorse a flat earth will use images created by contemporary theologians who wrongly present biblical cosmology as a flat earth under a domed vault as evidence of what the Bible teaches. In doing so, they support skeptics who attack the Bible by saying it endorses ANE (ancient Near East) mythologies, thus subjugating biblical authority to other texts. Additionally, they become unwitting victims of the conflict thesis twice, first in believing in a flat earth and second in accepting the false domed-vault cosmology. This concept of biblical cosmology arose in the late nineteenth century as an attempt to discredit the Bible, not from ANE sources. Those who support the flat earth, believing that this is what the Bible teaches, have fallen into a trap. Ironically, some flat-earthers believe they are defending the Bible, but they have been tricked into doing just the opposite and use the same false arguments that skeptics do to cast doubt and ridicule Scripture.

Articles About Flat Earth

• Falling for a Flat Earth Feb. 11, 2024 from Answers Magazine A resurgent flat-earth movement claims we need to get back to what the Bible says—but what does God’s Word really say about the earth’s shape?
• Do Government Documents Admit That the Earth Is Flat?Sept. 15, 2023 from Answers in DepthFlat-Earthers Misunderstand Simplifying Assumptions
• Get Ready for the April 8, 2024, Total Solar Eclipse!Sept. 14, 2023 from Danny Faulkner Blog Another Chance to View the Creator’s Artistry
• Is the Moon a Transparent Object?Aug. 30, 2023 from Danny Faulkner BlogThe Recent Lunar Occultation of Antares Disproves a Flat-Earth Claim.
• Watch for the Perseid Meteor Shower This Weekend!Aug. 8, 2023 from Danny Faulkner BlogOne of the best meteor showers of the year will be this Sunday!
• Time Zones and the Flat EarthJune 14, 2023 from Danny Faulkner BlogIs the sun like a spotlight?
• Is This Christian Astronaut Lying to You?April 7, 2023 from Ken Ham BlogDo people actually believe in a flat earth? Yes, there are people today, including a number of Christians, who actually do believe in a flat earth.
• Is Newtonian Physics Outdated? What Do Flat-Earthers Say?Dec. 21, 2022 from Danny Faulkner BlogThe misunderstanding some prominent flat-earthers is not limited to wave-particle duality. There are also fundamental misunderstandings about Einsteinian relativity theory.
• Is Light a Wave or a Particle? What Do Flat-Earthers Say?Oct. 11, 2022 from Danny Faulkner BlogThere is a war going on between two groups of flat-earthers over the nature of light: is light a wave or a particle?
• Flat-Earthers and the Coriolis Effect Once AgainAug. 25, 2022 from Danny Faulkner BlogJohn Stunja has misled many flat-earthers through his teachings on the Coriolis effect, and does so again in a recent podcast.
• Does the North Star (Polaris) Prove the Earth Is Flat?May 31, 2022 from Answers in DepthFlat-earthers falsely claim that Polaris remains motionless in the sky as all other stars circle it. However, appearances can be deceiving.
• “The Scientific Method” and the Flat Earth IIIOct. 8, 2021 from Danny Faulkner BlogThe use of real science leads to the conclusion that the earth is a globe. Since this contradicts the flat-earth religion, flat-earthers must discredit science.
• More Evidence That the Earth Is a GlobeJune 10, 2021 from Danny Faulkner BlogI rarely can make these observations, but when I do, I always get results that are consistent with the earth being a globe.
• A Prominent Flat-Earther Proves the Earth Is a GlobeMay 27, 2021 from Danny Faulkner BlogNathan Thompson, a prominent flat-earther that I’ve previously discussed, recently made a video where he claims to have proven a flat earth.
• Is Gravity a Force?April 9, 2021Flat-earth proponents aim to demote gravity as a force, but they fail to account for time-honored conventions in physics informed by relativity.
• The Flat-Earth GospelFeb. 26, 2021 from Danny Faulkner BlogTo many flat-earthers, believing in the flat earth is either equivalent to, or nearly on the level of, the gospel, and thus they promote it religiously.
• Changes in the Flat-Earth MovementFeb. 12, 2021 from Danny Faulkner BlogIt is as nearly as difficult to find pro-flat-earth material on the internet as it was to find anti-flat-earth material five years ago. What changed?
• The Black Swan: Evidence the Earth Is Flat?Feb. 5, 2021 from Danny Faulkner BlogThe black swan photo and other similar images are used to commit the informal fallacy of cherry-picking data.
• Flat Earth Fails in Solstice PredictionsJan. 25, 2021 from Danny Faulkner BlogHow flat earthers cannot accurately account for the December solstice or other celestial phenomena with their zetetic model of the earth.
• Eratosthenes ReconsideredDec. 18, 2020 from Danny Faulkner BlogAt the time of Eratosthenes, it was generally known that the earth is a globe. Eratosthenes built on that knowledge to measure the its circumference and radius.
• The Coriolis Effect, the Foucault Pendulum, and the Flat-Earth MovementNov. 17, 2020 from Danny Faulkner BlogThe very inaccurate manner with which flat-earthers handle the Coriolis effect and the Foucault pendulum is typical of those in the flat-earth movement.
• The Scientific Method and the Flat Earth IIOct. 28, 2020 from Danny Faulkner BlogFlat-earthers use their definition of the scientific method to exclude an observational approach to testing ideas, which leads them to conclude that astronomy is not a science.
• Was E.W. Bullinger a Flat-Earther?Sept. 24, 2020 from Danny Faulkner BlogFlat-earthers often respond to criticism that Bullinger, who wrote the definitive book on figures of speech in the Bible, was a flat-earther.
• Is Belief that the Earth is Flat Necessary for Salvation?April 27, 2020 from Danny Faulkner BlogIf flat-earth Christians are genuine in their faith, it makes me wonder why they are evangelizing about flat earth rather than the gospel.
• COVID-19 and the Flat EarthApril 17, 2020 from Danny Faulkner BlogI’ve been curious as to what flat-earthers think about COVID-19, so I’ve been monitoring flat-earth websites and YouTube channels for weeks.
• A Sort-of Book Review of Flat Earth: The History of an Infamous IdeaMarch 18, 2020 from Danny Faulkner BlogI recently read Christine Garwood’s 2007 book, Flat Earth: The History of an Infamous Idea. I remember hearing when it came out, but at the time, I saw little need to read it.
• BLOGThe Sad Legacy of “Mad” Mike HughesFeb. 25, 2020 from Danny Faulkner Blog
• The Scientific Method and the Flat EarthJan. 31, 2020 from Danny Faulkner Blog
• The Third Flat Earth International ConferenceDec. 11, 2019 from Danny Faulkner BlogThis year’s Flat Earth International Conference had a different flavor from the previous two. The theme for this meeting was “Finding the Creator in Creation.”
• Falling Flat: A New Book by Dr. Danny Faulkner Refuting the Flat EarthSept. 15, 2019 from Ken Ham BlogThe question “Is the earth flat?” has become so popular that Dr. Faulkner wrote a book, Falling Flat, that’s now available for order.
• The Modern Flat-Earth Movement and Anti-SemitismAug. 9, 2019 from Danny Faulkner BlogWhere did the anti-Semitism of the modern flat-earth movement come from?
• Does the Bible Teach a Flat Earth?Aug. 2, 2019 from Ken Ham BlogIt’s not just atheists arguing the Bible teaches a flat earth—it’s some Christians, too, who’ve fallen for it and believe that’s what it teaches. But does it?
• Reflections on the Flat-Earth MovementJune 22, 2019 from Danny Faulkner BlogIn preparation for the premiere of the documentary Faith on the Edge, I gathered my thoughts on the sociology of the flat-earth movement into 20 points.
• January 2019’s Total Lunar Eclipse and the Flat EarthJan. 25, 2019What do lunar eclipses tell us about flat earth? Lunar eclipses remain the best method for most people to see for themselves that the earth is a sphere.
• Stars Falling from Heaven: Evidence That the Earth Is Flat?Dec. 22, 2018 from Danny Faulkner BlogFlat-earthers argue that since certain verses in Scripture speak of the stars falling, then the stars will literally fall.
• Second Flat Earth International ConferenceDec. 14, 2018 from Danny Faulkner BlogOn November 15–16, 2018, I attended the Second Flat Earth International Conference. Here I take the opportunity to blog about this year’s meeting.
• NASA, the Changing Size of North America, and the Flat EarthAug. 28, 2018 from Danny Faulkner BlogFlat-earthers spend considerable time and effort attempting to debunk all things from NASA. In this article, I will take up two of their complaints.
• The Book of Enoch and the Flat EarthMarch 11, 2018 from Answers in DepthSome flat-earthers have appealed to the Book of Enoch to support their argument that the Bible teaches that the earth is flat.
• “Doubting Evolution Is like Believing the Earth Is Flat.”Feb. 24, 2018 from Refuting Common Evolutionist ClaimsThe fact that some people in history believed the earth to be flat highlights the fallibility of man’s reasoning. Throughout history, scientists’ confident assertions have later been disproven.
• What I Learned at the First Flat Earth International ConferenceNov. 17, 2017 from Danny Faulkner BlogGoing to a meeting such as FEIC, hearing directly from recognized flat-earth experts, and networking with flat-earthers is a legitimate part of my research.
• Does the Bible Teach That the Earth Is Flat?April 4, 2017 from Answers in DepthIn this article, I will examine many of the biblical passages that supposedly teach that the earth is flat, and I will show that in fact they do not.
• BLOGA Lunar Occultation: Another Test for the Flat EarthMarch 17, 2017 from Danny Faulkner BlogI have written about the flat-earth craze that has become popular. To believe that the earth is flat, one must believe in many other odd things.
• Flat Earth Proof—Just a MirageJan. 16, 2017 from Answers in DepthHere I wish to expand upon the phenomenon that caused Rowbotham’s experiment to go awry. Rowbotham was a victim of a superior mirage.
• A Flat-Earth Prediction Falls FlatDec. 23, 2016In this article, Dr. Danny Faulkner tests a prediction based upon the flat-earth model and shows that the results of the test contradict the prediction.
• BLOGFlat Earth-Star TrailsOct. 12, 2016 from Danny Faulkner BlogSkiba noted the title of was “Is the Earth Flat?” and my “answer to that question was essentially, ‘The Earth is not flat and the Bible never said it was!’”
• Is the Earth Flat?May 24, 2016The earth could be both round and flat, if it were disk-shaped. Have we all been fed a whopping lie about the true shape of the earth?
• Contradictions: Hanging on Pillars of Nothing?April 9, 2016Erik Lutz, AiG–US, explains why the Bible records both a statement that the earth is immovably set on pillars and that it is hanging on nothing.
• They Think the Earth is Flat?Aug. 9, 2008 from News to KnowThey’re a tiny minority of untrained, pseudoscientific hacks who buy into a disproven, centuries-old myth rather than accepting well-established modern science.
• Getting To Be as Flat as the “Flat Earth” ArgumentApril 19, 2005Dr. Wolfe declared to the TV audience, “To teach kids that creationism explains something about the world is no different than teaching them that the earth is flat.”
• SEMI-TECHNICAL RESEARCH PAPERIs the ’Erets (Earth) Flat?Aug. 1, 2001, pp. 52–53P. H. Seely responds to J. P. Holding’s criticism of his writings about a flat earth.