Johnson’s beliefs were all Bible-based and considered scientists pulling hoaxes which would replace religion with science.ĭaniel Shenton re-established the Flat Earth Society in 2004 based on a web-based discussion forum. Under his leadership in the next 30 years, members grew to 3,500. Johnson became president of the International Flat Earth Research Society of America. Samuel Shenton founded the International Flat Earth Society in Dover, England in 1956. Rowbotham also published a leaflet entitled “The inconsistency of Modern Astronomy and its Opposition to the Scriptures!” The leaflet argues the Holy Bible alongside the human senses supported the idea that the Earth was flat and the immovable and the essential truth should not be set aside for a system based on human milestone. The southern edge of the disc is bounded by a wall of ice, Antarctica, with the Sun and the Moon are only 3,000 miles or 4,800 km above Earth and the cosmos or the universe is 3,100 miles or 5,000 km above Earth. He proposed that Earth is flat disc centred at the North Pole. Based on the conclusion from the Bedford Level experiment, the writer published a pamphlet titled the “Zetetic Astronomy” which he later expanded into a book titled “Earth Not A Globe”. Many modern Flat Earth Societies based their claims from the flat Earth hypothesis formulated by the English writer Samuel Rowbotham. To support their claim, members have stated that walking around the planet looks and feels flat, thus all evidence like satellite photos of Earth as a sphere are hoaxes and fabrications of a conspiracy that is orchestrated by NASA and other government agencies. One group of people who have been claiming the Earth is flat is the International Flat Earth Society. Famed astrophysicist and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson was quick to respond to the celebrities’ claims. and NBA player Kyrie Irving have been claiming on social media that the Earth is flat. Just recently, reality and porn star Tila Tequila, American rapper, B.o.B. It’s kind of funny and bewildering that in this age of advanced technology and science that there a number of people believing that the Earth is flat. It’s also bewildering that some celebrities declaring online that Earth is indeed flat and claims that NASA has been keeping this secret from everyone for decades. Man has gone far into outer space and also proved that the other planets in our system are not flat. And many photos and videos have been shown that Earth is not flat like a Frisbee.
For most people, this doesn’t come as new and why should it? The Earth’s spherical nature has been known since the time of the Ancient Greeks. Planet Earth is not flat, and it’s a scientific fact.
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