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	Flat Earth Society \| MetaFilter
		There's a whole directory related to flat earth stuff here, including this online book that claims belief in a flat earth was not as widespread in medieval times as we may have been led to believe.
		The idea of the earth being flat only really appeared during the middle ages, and even then was more or less limited to the christians who had a nasty habit of locking up anyone who disagreed with them.
		The hebrews may or may not have believed the earth was spherical - I've seen that translated as the "circle" of the earth, as in, disc, and there are places that refer to the four corners of the earth and the pillars and other stuff like that - the bible isn't a scientific document.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/26816 (1729 words)

	The Flat Earth and its Advocates: A List of References: Science Reference Guides (Science Reference Services, Library ...
		The earth being flat instead of round, the sun is not stationary but moves.
		It was not without significance that the ancient Hebrews, whose views were reflected in Scripture, conceived the earth as a flat disk covered over by the dome of the heavens...
		White, Arthur V. The shape of the earth; some proofs for the spherical shape of the earth given in astronomical and geographical text-books examined, and shown to be unsound.
	www.loc.gov /rr/scitech/SciRefGuides/flatearth.html (1245 words)

	The Myth of the Flat Earth
		The idea that the uncouth people of the Middle Ages thought the Earth was flat is an example of the myth that has been propagated since the nineteenth century to give us a quite unfair view of this vibrant and exciting period.
		According to Jeffrey Burton Russell here, the invention of the flat Earth myth can be laid at the feet of Washington Irving, who included it in his historical novel on Columbus, and the wider idea that the everyone in the Middle Ages was deluded has been widely accepted ever since.
		The flat Earth is discussed in chapter 2 and one can almost sense White's confusion that hardly any of the sources support his hypothesis that Christians widely believed in it.
	www.bede.org.uk /flatearth.htm (1349 words)

	The Flat-out Truth
		They circle above the earth in the vicinity of the equator, and their apparent rising and setting are tricks of perspective, like railroad tracks that appear to meet in the distance.
		The Flat Earth Society's presidency descended upon Charles Johnson in accord with the last wishes of its founder, Samuel Shenton, an Englishman who died in 1971.
		The society, which will round out a quarter-century next year, is a spiritual inheritor of the Universal Zetetic Society, which flourished in England in the last century.
	www.lhup.edu /~dsimanek/fe-scidi.htm (2335 words)

	Flat Earth FAQ - Read This!
		The Flat Earth Society Forums' goal is to promote the free discussion of The Flat Earth Theory as well as the free discussion of and debate of any topic of interest to our members that do not contradict Forum Rules.
		The Earth would continue accelerating upwards past you at a rate of 1g, so it would appear to you that you were falling into space.
		The magnetic north pole is on the underside of the Earth.
	theflatearthsociety.org /forum/index.php?topic=11211.0 (2501 words)

	Documenting the Existence of "The International Flat Earth Society"
		Precisely the opposite viewpoint is expressed by the reference to the "four corners of the earth," and by the parable of Jesus being shown "all the kingdoms of the earth" from the top of a mountain -- clearly impossible for a sphere, but reasonable for a flat surface.
		The International Flat Earth Society is the oldest continuous Society existing on the world today.
		The Fact the Earth is Flat is not my opinion, it is a Proved Fact.
	www.talkorigins.org /faqs/flatearth.html (1344 words)

	The Flat-Earth Bible by Robert J. Schadewald (and other 'Flat Earth' Goodies)
		The earth was created on the first day, and it was "without form and void (Genesis 1:2)." On the second day, a vault, the "firmament" of the King James version, was created to divide the waters, some being above and some below the vault.
		Disregarding the dome, the essential flatness of the earth's surface is required by verses like Daniel 4:10-11.
		FLAT, heavily populated by University of Kansas faculty, facetiously says POSH is wrong to focus only on evolution and suggests that the Earth is flat because the Bible says so.
	www.positiveatheism.org /writ/flatearth.htm (3250 words)

	Flat Earth Society - The Urban Dead Wiki
		The Flat Earth Society is a group dedicated to bringing rational discourse to the citizens of Malton.
		This phrase is uttered frequently because the Flat Earth Society is currently undergoing a period of transition in which every single member of the society claims to be the leader.
		May 1, 2007 - Due to increasing hostility between the infidels and naysayers of Vinetown with members of the FEZ, the Flat Earth Society has decided to take their message abroad, moving to a new, yet to be disclosed, location, from which to preach their important message.
	wiki.urbandead.com /index.php/Flat_Earth_Society (1281 words)

	An Introduction to Biblical Nonsense
		However, if the earth were as flat as a casual observation would indicate, and we toss all modern understanding of gravity to the side, it would be very conceivable for us to think that God could invert the earth so that its inhabitants would fall into some unknown void.
		Isaiah 40:22 says, “It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth.” The word in question here is “circle.” A circle is a flat two-dimensional object, while a sphere, the approximate shape of the earth, is a three-dimensional object.
		The earth goes dark on the rare occasion that the moon passes directly between us and the sun; our nighttime light turns red from the earth’s sunsets projecting on the lunar surface when we sweep directly between the sun and the moon.
	www.biblicalnonsense.com /chapter7.html (2809 words)

	Flat Earth Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Flat Earth Society is an organization first based in England and later in Lancaster, California that advocates the belief that the Earth is not a sphere but is flat (see flat Earth).
		The modern flat earth movement was originated by an eccentric English inventor, Samuel Birley Rowbotham (1816-1884), who, inspired by his religious convictions that certain passages in the Bible are meant to be taken literally, published a 16-page pamphlet, which he later expanded into a 430 page book expounding his views.
		The last world model propagated by the Flat Earth Society holds that humans live on a disc, with the North Pole at its center and a 150-foot (50 meter) high wall of ice at the outer edge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flat_earth_society (1867 words)

	Flat Earth - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		During this period the Earth was generally thought of as divided into climes, with frigid climes at the poles and a deadly torrid clime at the equator.
		The widely circulated woodcut of a man poking his head through the firmament of a flat earth to view the mechanics of the spheres, executed in the style of the 16th century cannot be traced to an earlier source than Camille Flammarion's L'Atmosphere: Météorologie Populaire (Paris, 1888, p.
		Russell claims that the Flat Earth theory is a myth used to impugn pre-modern civilisation, especially that of the Middle Ages in Europe.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/f/l/a/Flat_Earth_ce9b.html (2027 words)

	Crank Dot Net \| geology
		"Earth Expansion is important, not simply because of the astounding fact in itself, but for what it implies, namely that there is no known mechanism by which expansion could occur to the extent apparent, which in turn points to the necessity for addressing the foundations of our understanding of physics.
		The Earth on which we live is graphic proof that for all our understanding of the world about us, in some serious way that is staring us in the face, in Plate Tectonics we have it wrong.
		While the Society is not a 'crackpot' group, it is opposed to the fashionable, politically correct Spherical Earth theory, which is expounded every day by so-called 'scientists,' the media and political leaders.
	www.crank.net /geology.html (1164 words)

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		Flat Earthers -- Members of the Flat Earth Society believe that the shape of the earth is flat because a literal reading of the Bible demands it (Schadewald, 1991).
		Charles K. Johnson is the head of the International Flat Earth Society, headquartered in Lancaster, CA, and he is very serious about the planet´s shape being as the ancients perceived it: circular and flat, not spherical.
		Both flat-earth and geocentrist views reflect the perception of the earth held by the ancient Hebrews, that the earth is a flat disk floating on water, and the heavens are held up by a dome (or firmament) with the sun, moon, and stars attached to it (Cartmill, 1998).
	www.ncseweb.org /resources/articles/1593_the_creationevolution_continu_12_7_2000.asp (2745 words)

	Did Bible writers believe the earth was flat? - ChristianAnswers.Net
		In the Old Testament, Job 26:7 explains that the earth is suspended in space, the obvious comparison being with the spherical sun and moon.
		The circle on the face of the waters is one of the proofs that the Greeks used for a spherical earth.
		This spherical earth concept did not prevail; the Romans drew the earth as a flat disk with oceans around it.
	www.christiananswers.net /q-eden/edn-c015.html (607 words)

	SF Hub: Flat Earth Society Archive
		The Flat Earth Society was founded in 1956 by Samuel Shenton, a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and the Royal Geographic Society, as a successor to the 19th century Universal Zetetic Society.
		The Flat Earth Society devised detailed arguments, based on scientific observations and references to the Bible, to support their claim that the Earth is a motionless disc not an orbiting globe.
		The Flat Earth Society argued that the accepted scientific belief in the spherical Earth was a delusion, that the curvature of the Earth was attributable to atmospheric refraction and that the Moon landings were a hoax.
	www.sfhub.ac.uk /flatearth.htm (452 words)

	Flat Earth Society - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
		He claims to have plenty of "evidence" to prove his "theory" flat-worldedness (but so did the Catholic Church, in the MIDDLE FUCKING AGES!!!) But as for the drugs, it was The Chronic of Narnia I think.
		Patrick Moore is a prominent member of the Flat Earth society.
		His motives are unknown, and when asked why he joined the society, he promptly fell asleep, his monacle falling out.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Flat_Earth_Society (357 words)

	Flat Earth - SkepticWiki (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The belief in a Flat Earth is the belief that the surface of the Earth, rather than being the familiar spheroidal globe, is in fact a flat plate.
		Rowbotham's cosmology depicted a flat, circular Earth with the North Pole at the center and the South Pole ringing the outer edge.
		As absurd as flat earthism may seem to the modern eye, it is merely biblical literalism taken to its logical extreme.
	www.skepticwiki.org /wiki/index.php/Flat_Earth (267 words)

	THE NEW FLAT EARTH SOCIETY
		But there are problems with a spherical earth, and a now a new paradigm is emerging which seems to be a return to the wisdom of the ancients.
		A spherical earth is finite and hence is forever unappealing to the devotees of perpetual growth.
		In contrast, a flat earth can accomodate growth forever, because a flat earth can be infinite in the two horizontal dimensions and also in the vertical downward direction.
	jclahr.com /bartlett/flat-earth.html (1828 words)

	James Randi Educational Foundation — An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural
		The spherical Earth was a concept accepted (but quietly) by scholars long before it was officially stated by Copernicus.
		In America, the movement began with a 100,000-watt radio station owned by Wilbur Glen Voliva, then the U.S. interest passed into the hands of Charles Johnson, who inherited the leadership of the Flat Earth Society from the Englishman Samuel Shelton, founder of the British society.
		Johnson is presently the reigning head of the organization, now known as the International Flat Earth Research Society.
	www.randi.org /encyclopedia/Flat%20Earth%20Society.html (258 words)

	Bartlett: The New Flat Earth Society
		A spherical earth is finite and hence is forever unappealing to the devotees of perpetual growth.
		In contrast, a flat earth can accomodate growth forever, because a flat earth can be infinite in the two horizontal dimensions and also in the vertical downward direction.
		This indicates that the population of the Earth, growing at 1% per year, would grow to a number equal to the number of atoms estimated to be in the known universe, in a period of time something like the period since a recent ice age.
	www.hubbertpeak.com /bartlett/flatearth.htm (1836 words)

	Turtles All The Way Down by Richard Cummings
		As Thomas Huxley concluded a lecture on Darwin, he was immediately accosted by a little, old lady who challenged him to refute her conviction that the world, which was flat, rested on the back of a turtle.
		In commemoration of those remarks, I announce forthwith the reconstitution of the Flat Earth Society.
		And welcome to the Flat Earth Society, an idea whose time has come.
	www.lewrockwell.com /cummings/cummings31.html (433 words)

	The Talk.Origins Archive: Arguments against Creationism and Intelligent Design FAQs
		The Creation Research Society requires its members to adhere to a statement of belief.
		The claim that Charles Darwin recanted his acceptance of evolution on his deathbed is refuted.
		The lengths to which one might go in a literal interpretation of the Bible are illustrated lucidly by the Flat Earth Society (although it is important to point out that most creationists do not believe in a flat earth).
	www.talkorigins.org /origins/faqs-creationists.html (1971 words)

	The Flat Earth Society by Rolf Witzsche (Book) in Literature & Fiction
		It explores an aspect of modern society that we are not eager, or even willing to look at.
		We like to see a world that is flat rather than how it really is. And there is another aspect that we don't want to acknowledge either, which is actually the real principle of our humanity: the Principle of Universal Love that we simply can't get away from.
		Can’t we remain alive in the world of our small dreams as devoted members of the 'Flat Earth Society?' Oh.
	www.lulu.com /content/457631 (270 words)

	Flat Earth Society Gifts
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	Kippax Flat Earth Society
		It was formed with the sole intention of promoting the Earth's flatness and convincing people, along the way, that the 'round Earth' theory is completely out of date.
		The founder members were invited to talk about the Society on Alvin Blossom's daytime radio show on Radio Leeds, after which the Society's membership grew significantly.
		This appearance further increased the awareness of the Kippax Flat Earth Society.
	www.kippaxvillage.ukf.net /KFES.htm (654 words)

	AlterNet: EnviroHealth: Greetings From the New Flat Earth
		The disproportional credence given to these arguments are what prompted the creation of the Flat Earth Award, announced last week in Vermont.
		There are far-too-regular images of shrinking glaciers and shattered ice shelves, and reports of massive devastation, like the 4 million acres of Alaskan spruce trees killed by beetles now able to survive the winter cold.
		Between industry-funded groups like the Greening Earth Society and the Science and Environmental Policy Project, and conservative mouthpieces like Limbaugh, there is no shortage of press releases and sound bites decrying each new observance of global warming's effects.
	www.alternet.org /envirohealth/21164 (1043 words)

	Flat Earth Society Encyclopedia Article @ GuidingLight.com (Guiding Light) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		There is no historical evidence that has managed to convince the entirety of the community of historians on earth that any one religion is true.
		Therefore, most historians with religious beliefs hold others to be "false", or essentially wrong.
		More Flat Earth Society Page Titles on this Site
	www.guidinglight.com /encyclopedia/Flat_Earth_Society (2100 words)

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