You don't. You respect their mind. Simple. Make love not war of any kind.
Ask HN: How do I Convince someone the Earth isn't flat
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#12> Ran into a few religious people who suggest the earth is a firmament
The firmament is the sky, not the ground.
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#13Did they, by any chance, mention elephants and a big turtle too?
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#14Why do you need to prove them wrong? Have they given you doubt the world is round? https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/26427/what-is-th...
Yes because it's in the Bible. And Quran. And Torah.
Have to convert the radicals.
One argument is when the plane lands why doesn't it curve. Another is why can we see over 1500km with a telescope.
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#15> Ran into a few religious people who suggest the earth is a firmament The firmament is the sky, not the ground.
This suggests that we can't make it to space so that's a new worm of crazy.
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#16> Ran into a few religious people who suggest the earth is a firmament The firmament is the sky, not the ground.
This suggests that we can't make it to space so that's a new worm of crazy.
No, what it suggests is that you must first address your own lack of understanding before criticizing others for theirs.
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#17Ask them to take you to the edge of the Earth and show you where you can jump off. /s
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#18The trivial way is a phone call to a friend in a different time zone. It's dark there; it's not dark here. It's just past dawn here; the sun is at the highest a few time zones east. More phone calls to more places and it's pretty quickly apparent that the angle to the sun is exactly what you'd expect from a sphere and not from a disk.
Not that it matters. Flerfers have had decades coming up with increasingly elaborate and absurd cosmologies. They don't understand them, but that's what science looks like to them as well, so they figure it's your word against theirs. And since their word is the Bible, they win.
If they were genuinely curious, there are a million ways to show the roundness of the earth. But there are zero ways to demonstrate it to a person who is fundamentally incurious and doesn't want to know.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
This suggests that we can't make it to space so that's a new worm of crazy.
No, what it suggests is that you must first address your own lack of understanding before criticizing others for theirs.
They don't believe we can leave the firmament so never been to mars, no satellites, and never been the moon. Feel free to answer that other comment in this thread mr smart.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, what it suggests is that you must first address your own lack of understanding before criticizing others for theirs.
They don't believe we can leave the firmament so never been to mars, no satellites, and never been the moon. Feel free to answer that other comment in this thread mr smart.
You're struggling with basic vocabulary. Address your own shortcomings first before worrying about anyone else.