While they might have been confusing, which could have been their purpose, they were trivial. The FE proponent had lots of odd arguments. They want the available evidence to be sufficient, and they’re convinced before the argument begins. The standard of evidence for the FE proponent, Creationist, or Christian is low. If you donate to a Creationist organization, will that fund scientific research? Of course not-it will be used to convince lay Christians that they’ve backed the right horse and to appeal for more donations. If Creationists were trying to do real science, they’d be going to conferences and writing papers for secular journals, like the real scientists. Who is the audience for the argument? Not a scientist, if the argument is coming from a flat earther or a Creationist*. As you analyzed the argument from our mythical flat earth (FE) proponent, I hope you regularly got the sense of, “Hmm-that feels familiar.” That feeling probably pointed you to either Creationism or Christianity, and often both. There are surprisingly many parallels between flat earth thinking and Christianity. Sadly, this beautiful concord is not to last, because I think Christianity is little more than flat earth thinking with centuries of patina. It’s a nice change to be starting with a point of agreement. With few exceptions, atheists and Christians are on the same page with respect to flat earth thinking. My last article was a dialogue with an imaginary flat earther, and while I tried to give as strong an account as possible, I hope it was obvious that my feet are firmly planted on a round earth. Is the earth a flat disk? I hope we can agree that it’s not, that the earth is a sphere, and that flat earth thinking is bullshit. Surprisingly, the argument for Christianity fails in similar ways. Christian thinking is like flat earth thinkingĪ flat-earth treatise fails in many ways.
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