Ah, it wasn't so long ago that flatearther Christianity was science.

[Skidmore]

http://www.retronaut.co/2012/01/map-of-the-square-and-stationary-earth-1893/

Back to the future.

PS. Click on the map a couple of times to read the text around it. Seriously.

[arcane1]

1. Well, that was quite a sight!

I like how he's willing to conceive a half-globe

[Skidmore]

2. Yup. There was some sort of curvature going on and he was definitely looking for profit too.

Twenty-five cents could get you the map, a book, and you could learn to predict eclipses.

[TheWraith]

3. That wasn't "science" even then.

The idea of a flat Earth hasn't been science for a couple thousand years.

[Skidmore]

4. If you put "professor" in front of your name and

school the gullible that the Bible is science, then they will believe it so.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

5. I wouldn't be surprised if there are places in this country where you can still do that.

Adding the word "Professor" still impresses a lot of people.

[xfundy]

6. Yes. "Doctor" as well.

As in, Rev. Dr. Jerry Farthole.

At some point the christers must have put pressure on th' system to allow them to have "doctorates" in the unseeable, unknowable Religion Industry.

Most* are scamming turds.

*(Dr. Martin Luther King being the only exception I can think of, so don't bother, trolls.)

[xfundy]

7. Thanks for the intro to a wonderful site! nt