[extropy-chat] reconciling the flat-earth "theory"

[Dan Clemmensen]

Anne-Marie Taylor wrote:

>
>
> */Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com>/* wrote:
>
>     religious issue: the Bible implies that the world is flat, with
>     four corners.
>
> Just curious but couldn't that have meant that 2000 years ago somebody 
> came
> up with a scientic hypothesis that the world is flat with four 
> corner?.  I think
> that would seem like a very good probability based on the information they
> had at that time.
> Anna
>  
>  

You forgot the alternative formulation: it really was flat then, but it 
is spherical now. Not only is it spherical now, but since the change, it 
has alway s been spherical. Prior to the change, it had always been flat 
and would continue to be flat. The renowned philosopher and cosmologist 
Terry Pratchet has written extensively on this and related topics.