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2nd July 2022, 01:04 PM | #1 |
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That Time In 1870 When The Father Of Biogeography Took Up A Bet Against Flat Earthers
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2nd July 2022, 01:09 PM | #2 |
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This piece of history is unknown to many!
Alfred Russel Wallace, an accomplished scientist, goes head to head with creationist flat-earthers! The rest is.....interesting. |
2nd July 2022, 03:35 PM | #3 |
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What were you expecting to happen? He's a scientists, they were flat earth believers. How interesting could it be?
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2nd July 2022, 04:46 PM | #4 |
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"Reality is what's left when you cease to believe." Philip K. Dick |
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2nd July 2022, 05:38 PM | #5 |
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Ashley Babbit was a good start. |
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2nd July 2022, 08:54 PM | #6 |
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"Reality is what's left when you cease to believe." Philip K. Dick |
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2nd July 2022, 10:42 PM | #7 |
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And my take is some small percentage are sincere due to religious aspects/reasons... "it's a firmament shell/dome" etc.
How small a percentage is impossible to say, but I believe they're there. But the majority? Absolutely... attention whores. |
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---------------------- Anything goes in the Goblin hut... anything. "Suggesting spurious explanations isn't relevant to my work." -- WTC Dust. "Both cannot be simultaneously true, and so one may conclude neither is true, and if neither is true, then Apollo is fraudulent." -- Patrick1000. |
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2nd July 2022, 11:13 PM | #8 |
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Facts are simple and facts are straight, facts are lazy and facts are late, facts don't come with points of view, facts don't do what I want them to. ************************** Apollo Hoax Debunked |
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29th August 2022, 08:24 PM | #9 |
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