Those who are serious are often motivated by religion or conspiracy theories. įlat Earth groups of the modern era date from the middle of the 20th century some adherents are serious and some are not. Flat Earth advocates are classified by experts in philosophy and physics as science deniers. Flat Earth beliefs are pseudoscience the hypotheses and assertions are not based on scientific knowledge. Modern flat Earth beliefs are promoted by organizations and individuals advocating that the Earth is flat while denying the Earth's sphericity, contrary to over two millennia of scientific consensus. The observable, contemporary scientific view of the Earth as a rotating spherical globe, which flat Earth believers contest.

Twenty-two images of the Earth taken from space by the DSCOVR satellite. Projections of the sphere like the azimuthal equidistant projection have been co-opted as images of the flat Earth model depicting Antarctica as an ice wall surrounding a disk-shaped Earth.

For similar topics, see Flat Earth (disambiguation). 'What makes his flat Earth different from other theories is his theory holds that the Earth is imprinted with an 'inverse toroid.'' If you were to take a donut and press it into wet cement and then remove the donut, Bingham explained, the rounded impression it left in the cement would be what is known in mathematics as an inverse toroid.This article is about modern-day beliefs that the Earth is flat. Typical of flat Earths, Ferguson's Earth is a rectangular slab, the four corners of which are each guarded by an angel.

'Ferguson was trying to make an updated version of the flat Earth theory to fit the biblical description of the Earth with known facts,' Bingham said. James Bingham, chairman of the museum's board of directors, told us what he knows about it. The other copy is housed in the Pioneer Historical Museum in Hot Springs. So we thought we'd send it to the Library of Congress,' Homuth told Life's Little Mysteries. I don't want it to fall into the hands of relatives, for God's sake! And I don't particularly want to sell it. He got the map from his eighth grade history teacher in Fargo, N.D., who got it from his grandfather, who lived in Hot Springs, S.D. It's printed on tissue paper and hand-colored with watercolors,' Homuth said.

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