The Earth is Flat

I do ask though, that when she annihilates me in this debate that she sheds mercy on me. I, pro, will advocate for the flat-Earth theory by using both Biblical and Scientific evidence to support this. While counter-arguments are acceptable, I ask that my opponent refrains from making any specific rebuttals to my argument in the second round. The Flat-Earth Theory is the belief that the Earth is flat. Many religions, including Christianity, strongly believe in this theory [1]. II) Biblical EvidenceThe Bible firmly establishes the belief that the Earth is flat. While there is not substantial evidence for these claims in the Holy Texts, many believe that the Bible and its laws and supposed "facts" should be accepted because the Bible is believed by many theists to have been written by prophets and God's people to communicate the "word of God. " There are subtle allusions to the idea that the Earth does not rotate on an axis such as: Chronicles 16:30: “He has fixed the earth firm, immovable,” Psalm 93:1: “Thou hast fixed the earth immovable and firm,” and Psalm 104:5: “Thou didst fix the earth on its foundation so that it never can be shaken,” [2]. There are also verses which clearly establish the belief that the Earth is flat: Isaiah 11:12 "And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth," Revelation 7:1 "And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree," and Revelation 20:8 "He will go out to deceive Gog and Magog, the nations at the four corners of the earth, and gather them for war. They are as numerous as the sands of the seashore," [3]. To assume that the Bible is round, you must also assume that the Holy Bible and Christianity is false, and that the "Word of God" is fallible. III) Scientific EvidenceSome, including my opponent (according to her profile, she is an atheist), do not believe in religion. Instead, agnostics, atheists and other secular people rather rely on science, which brings me to my next few points. There has been, according to the Alaskan Flat Earth Society, "experimental confirmation of the Earth's rigidity in space. " In 1887, two American scientists, Albert A. Michelson and Edward W. Morley, conducted an experiment to prove whether or not the Earth was moving in Space. In this experiment, the objective was to try and calculate the absolute speed of the Earth relative to the fixed ether. They would emit a light pulse and calculate how far it "trailed" behind the Earth. If the ether existed, the light pulse would fall back in one direction. Their calculated speed turned out to be zero. This experiment supported the theory of the Earth being immobile and flat [4]. Eric Dubay is a writer and prominent Flat-Earth theorist. He has written many publications regarding a flat-Earth, and has made many provocative statements which provide some support for the flat-Earth theory. He has argued many things such as "If Earth really was a globe, rivers such as the Mississipi would have to flow uphill to each the sea - flowing uphill 11 miles in its 3,000-mile length," and "If Earth really is spinning, bullets fired upwards would land hundreds of feet Westwards. They don't," [5]. Another experiment was conducted which provides more leverage to the Flat-Earth Theory: the Bishop Experiment. According to the Flat Earth Wikia, "If the earth is a globe, and is 24,900 English statute miles in circumference, the surface of all standing water must have a certain degree of convexity--every part must be an arc of a circle. From the summit of any such arc there will exist a curvature or declination of 8 inches in the first statute mile. In the second mile the fall will be 32 inches; in the third mile, 72 inches, or 6 feet, as shown in this chart. Ergo; looking at the opposite beach over 23 miles away there should be a bulge of water over 350 feet tall blocking my view. There isn't. Suppose that the earth is a sphere with a radius of 3,963 miles. If you are at a point P on the earth's surface and move tangent to the surface a distance of 1 mile then you can form a right angled triangle as in the diagram. .. Looking over a distance of 1 mile, we can use the theorem of Pythagoras: a2 = 3,9632 + 12 = 15,705,370 and when we square root that figure we get a = 3,963.000126 miles. Thus your position is 3,963.000126 - 3,963 = 0.000126 miles above the surface of the earth. 0.000126 miles = 12 in * 5,280 ft * 0.000126 mi = 7.98 inches. Hence after one mile the earth drops approximately 8 inches. Ergo, looking across 23 miles the Pythagorean theorem becomes: a2 = 39632 +232 = 15,705,898. Thus your position is 3,963.06674 - 3,963 = 0.06674 miles above the surface of the earthand when we square root that figure we get a = 3,963.06674 miles. 0.06674 miles = 5,280 ft/mi * 0.6674 mi = 352.3872 feet. Hence after 23 miles the earth drops approximately 352 feet. " This experiment demonstrates that, every mile, the Earth's surface will drop approximately 15.3 feet [6]. This is clearly, according to the Bishop Experiment, utter nonsense. IV) Sources[1] . https://www.lhup.edu...[2] . https://www.lhup.edu...[3] . http://reflectionofmind.org...[4] . http://www.alaska.net...[5] . http://metro.co.uk...[6] . https://wiki.tfes.org...