Flat Earth Theory = Creationist Theory?

My best friend was in it, at Hamline University in Minnesota. So it existed there, a few years ago, at least. I don't remember if they have any sort of national office or anything.He was pretty good at it. He could argue against any proof of a spherical Earth anybody could come up with, except for me.

I don't know. Not since he graduated, I think.He wasn't serious about it, you know. I don't think anybody joins the society except as a joke. No, he actually had some good arguments. Not the least of which was "look around you. Does this look like a sphere?" It was pretty effective because around where we lived, it's pretty damn flat. Well, we had gone on a trip to Paris together the previous summer, so I more or less reminded him that when we were in the plane, we were just high enough to begin to discern a bit of curve to the Earth. (Maybe that was just an optical illusion?) That, and the fact that you can see so much father from the plane than you can on the ground (or at the top of a high building) refuted his theory that the horizon effect was due to atmospheric haze.

100% of the people I've known with any connection to the society were all jokers about it. I don't think there's anybody that takes it seriously.I mean, you'd have to be pretty ignorant to believe in a flat earth, and that ignorance can really only come from isolation. How could such people organize into a group without hearing that the Earth was spherical?I'm certain that everybody who has ever been in the organization did so as a joke. I've never heard of anybody who was serious about it. Which I think explains the lack of web presence - nobody takes it seriously enough to make websites.