The second theme is a conspiracy theory that sees ordinary people stand against a ruling elite of corrupt politicians and celebrities. they invented the round Earth because God cannot be above you if He is also below you, and they invented an infinite universe, to make you believe that God is far away from you. They invented the Big Bang to deny that God created everything, and they invented evolution to convince you that He cares more about monkeys than about you. What flat Earthers do is set up their argument within the longstanding struggle of the Christian right, by arguing that atheists use pseudoscience - evolution, the Big Bang and round Earth - to sway people away from God.Ī common flat Earther refrain that taps into religious beliefs is that God can inhabit the heavens above us physically only in a flat plane, not a sphere. People already debate atheism v faith, evolution v creationism, and Big Bang v intelligent design. First is the debate about the existence of God, which goes back to antiquity, and is built on reason, rather than observation.

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