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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mamba" data-source="post: 9538710" data-attributes="member: 7034611">Sure there would be, my point is not that there wouldn't be. If anything my point is that there is a lot of 'evidence' that is immediately apparent and and leans towards flat while the actual evidence for spherical is somewhat more subtle. Just listen to any reasons some flat earthers give you for their beliefs (water is level, the ocean is water, so we live on a flat plane...)Using common sense would frequently lead us to wrong conclusions, the shape of the Earth is one of those cases. We clearly have no actual evidence for a flat Earth and yet if you look at what people believed in the distant past, that was not exactly an uncommon belief (the Bible is pretty much a reflection of what the people of Mesopotamia believed at that time, not just a dozen desert tribes). The older books in the Bible predate Aristotle by a thousand years, the newer ones of the old testament are around his time and there is no indication the authors were aware of a spherical Earth.</blockquote>