2006-10-01 06:39:48 · 16 answers · asked by Gardenfoot 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
If anyone does they would not fit any of the minimum guidelines you have listed. Only someone differently abled could believe so.
2006-10-01 06:43:44 · answer #1 · answered by The Garage Dude 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Buddy, if anyone with an above average intelligence believes the world is flat, they dont have an above average intelligence.
2006-10-01 06:50:56 · answer #2 · answered by julean33 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whoever believes this needs to go to the salt flats in Utah and try to see the end of the test track from the start. The Bontiville test track is 9 miles long and perfectly flat. The only reason you can't see the end of the course is the curvature of the earth.
2006-10-01 06:43:18 · answer #3 · answered by looney tunes 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course the world is not entirely flat, but it is not entirely round either, or least it is not a perfect circle. There are places on Earth that are in fact flat. Parts of the Pacific ocean are a good example; with so much mass concentrated in one area added to the natural force of gravity, the end result is a flattening of the Earth's surface.
2006-10-01 07:28:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but you better check with the creationists and ID buffoons.
In reality, most people 'believe' the earth is not flat, but they would not have a clue how to figure it out so they could prove it.
Hence the apparent inexplicable disbelief in the equally well-established scientific theory of evolution but belief in the Copernican Universe.
Galileo said, "Mathematics is the language with which God wrote the Universe." If you want to know something, you need to speak the language, and Americans speak it less than any developed (and some undeveloped) nation on earth.
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Arnie -
Cut it out. I hate it when you read my mind like that.
I don't remember who, but someone started out in NW Europe with a stick, and walked to Egypt, or thereabouts, stopping to make a daily record of the stick's shadow caused by the noon-day sun - and figured out the earth was roundish in shape. Cool idea, but I guess you need a lot of free time to do something like that.
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rightwingers -
That would require too much education. Better stick with being ill-informed - no need to give yourself a headache.
2006-10-01 07:02:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually you should be asking this in the Religion section. Documented proof is available that the Catholic Church pushed this belief, even though as far back as when the pyramids were built, people knew the earth was round.
2006-10-01 06:48:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course! There are western 'flat earth societies' even!
People convince themselves of anything, and also hold onto beliefs long after they are proven false, because they think there is some advantage in conservatism.
There isn't, as has been proven time and again.
2006-10-01 06:42:33 · answer #7 · answered by nora22000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. However, hypothetically you could say that there are intelligent, but uneducated people (a normal I.Q. doesn't always = education) like a rain forest tribe, or something who don't really know how the world is shaped.
2006-10-01 06:46:17 · answer #8 · answered by red7 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is not round , it is flat-round , that is we dont fall , and that is why it isnt a stupid sphere with some water and strange creatures and someone who created the game is watching from up there and call himself god , Wait , haha , it is like that !
2006-10-01 06:46:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and Bush destroyed the towers, controls the gas prices and we have not been to the moon.
I am sorry for my smart aleck answer but I wanted to see how it feels to be a liberal.
2006-10-01 06:43:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋