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Atheists & Agnostics

DetlefK

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1. Flat-Earthers use "God of the Gaps" a lot.

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Tue Jan 16, 2018, 08:58 AM

Jan 2018

Whenever they are confronted with some fact that would make Flat-Earth impossible, they postulate some hitherto unknown physical phenomenon that makes Flat-Earth possible anyways.

(And for hobby-scientists, they are shockingly uneducated about basic things like inertia and momentum. They parrot talking-points, but they don't understand what they are talking about.)

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What The 'God Of The Gaps' Teaches Us About Science [View all] NeoGreen Jan 2018 OP

Flat-Earthers use "God of the Gaps" a lot. DetlefK Jan 2018 #1

Yes, very much so, and when... NeoGreen Jan 2018 #2

Thanks for posting RussBLib Jan 2018 #3

"I have no need for that hypothesis" Pope George Ringo II Jan 2018 #4

Nobody has a need for that hypothesis. MineralMan Jan 2018 #5

I would argue that... NeoGreen Jan 2018 #6