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Flat-Earthers have been getting more attention<\/a> lately, for reasons that I cannot quite fathom.<\/p>\n

But I will not complain, and here\u2019s why:\u00a0 Jonathan Robinson<\/a>\u00a0found a wonderful application for\u00a0an analogy with those who insist that the Earth is flat. Even though flat-earthers say things about the Earth that are blatantly untrue and clearly wrong, we would nonetheless never deny that the planet we live on together, which they depict so erroneously, is still the same Earth.<\/p>\n

And so why do some Christians deny that Muslims,\u00a0who claim to worship the one true God, the God whom Jews and Christians worship, do indeed worship the same God as they do, however different their conceptions about that God?<\/p>\n

If you haven\u2019t quite had your fill of pseudoscience for this evening, do also\u00a0take a closer look at the \u201cgravity wave truthers.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

$\"Flat$ <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"