The Earth is a Globe

 

 

To someone who believes that the earth is spherical in shape, and has been shown scientifically to be so for many hundreds of years, it will seem incredible that some people believe the earth is flat. Yet therre are very many people who hold to this belief. The Flat Earth Friends Facebook Group has over 162,000 members and the Official Flat Earth Global Discussion Group has over 116,000 members. The Flat Earth Society Facebook Group has over 145,000 members. Whilst not all members are flat earth believers, clearly there are large umbers of people believing that the earth is flat. Discussions on these groups tend to focus on one "proof" or objection at the time and so it is very hard to see the big picture of all the evidence at one. This page attempts to do this. Below is a list of simple, observable facts, that prove that the earth is a globe. As manny flat earthers believe in a flat earth because they say that the Bible says this, this is listed first before, ad separate to the prrof of a globular earth.

 

 

The Bible does not say that the earth is flat.

 

 

Proof the earth is gobular.

1	The ocean curves
2	Commercial air flights around the southern world take the same time as along a corresponding latitude in the north
3	Distances in southern countries as predicted by the flat earth model are completely wrong. They are as a globe model would predict. 4) Satellites stay up in space for decades. These cannot be explained by the flat earth model.
4	Satellites stay up in space for decades. These cannot be explained by the flat earth model.
5	The altitude angles to connect to these data satellites are correct in a globe model but cannot be explained on a flat earth model.
6	People in southern continents, when they look south see the same sky at the same time. On a flat earth model this should be completely different.
7	The night sky revolves around the north pole star in the north and the southern celestial pole in the south. It can't do both in a flat earth model.
8	There are many records of people walking, sledding, skiing, motoring and flying to the south pole.
9	There are regular commercial flights that fly over much of Antarctica.
10	There are regular races from Perth in Australia that circumnavigate Antarctica to quickly for it to be the circumference as stated by flat earth enthusiasts.
11	A flat earth model should have the sun rising in the north-east and setting in the north-west, but it mostly rises in the east and sets in the west
12	There are tens of thousands of photos and movies taken from space that show a globular earth. Some of these are from countries that do not like each other.
13	Amateur rocket enthusiasts make movie clips taken from their rockets that show a curved earth.
14	The motions of the wandering stars (planets) can be demonstrated and accurately predicted in a globe model but not in a flat earth model.
15	The motions of the comets can be demonstrated and accurately predicted in a globe model but not in a flat earth model.
16	Solar eclipses can be demonstrated and accurately predicted in a globe model but not in a flat earth model.
17	The phases of the moon can be explained and accurately predicted in a globe model but not in a flat earth model
18	Lunar eclipses can be explained and accurately predicted in a globe model but not in a flat earth model.
19	The north pole star, Polaris and nearby stars disappear below the horizon as one travels south. Similarly the southernmost constellations, such as the Southern Cross, dip below the hoizon as one travels north.
20	The altitude of any give star in the night sky as viewd from different positions on the earth is consistent with a globular modela nd not with a flat earth model.
21	The size of the sun does not vary.

 

 

Proof the earth is flat.

1	The Bible says the earth is flat
2	The earth looks flat
3	Everything would fall off the earth underneath
4	Pilots do not have to constantly adjust their flight path downwards as they fly around the earth