Short quiz
Three cosmological models, which is the correct one?
What things do flat, geocentric, and heliocentric earth, all have in common?
1. They all have the same calendar.
2. They all account for eclipses.
3. They all have the same continents, islands, rivers, oceans, etc.
4.
--Dave
Is this the beginning of a guilt by association argument?
Let's talk about what they do not have in common.
People on the flat Earth...
1. would not see the same side of the Moon from every place on Earth.
2. would not see the Moon in the same phase from every place on Earth.
3. would not see a south celestial pole.
4. would not see the same stars in the southern sky from various places in the southern hemisphere.
5. would not see a circular Sun and Moon both high in the sky and near the horizon (they would become more and more elliptical as the angle got shallower).
6. would not see the angular size of the Sun and Moon remain constant as they moved towards and away from any particular location.
7. would not ever see the Sun, Moon, Stars or anything else in the sky set beyond the horizon.
8. would not see ocean currents flow the way they do (split by the equator into counter-rotating currents - flowing faster and faster as they go south and slowing way-way down as they flow north - with no causal mechanism whatseover.)
9. would not see an equatorial bulge.
10. would not weigh .5% less at the equator than they do at the North Pole.