Up and Down / Round or Flat

The Round Earth Theory:

Scientists have concluded that the earth is round. In part, I would agree. However, if you fully accept that concept, you’re missing a very significant fact.

Let’s take a walk on any street or highway. You will note that, as far as your eye can see, the land is flat. If you’ve been to enough places, it would be fair to conclude that, wherever you are standing, it is also flat. Even that flat piece of land is, to some degree, above sea level. In other words, the area between the sea and where you are standing is elevated. Ok, great. That gives credence to what? It doesn’t give credence to a flat earth nor does it prove a round one.

Let’s climb Mount Everest…nearly 9000 feet above sea level. Hmmmmmmm, just how “round” is the earth now, if you factor in the height of mountains. The “face” of the earth is, at best, spherical. Spherical is not round. A globe of the earth is round. Why? Because the globe-maker, with the best intention of being accurate, cannot incorporate all the mountains, hills, valleys and craters that compose the land space called earth.

Let’s go out into space. From a particular point in space, any point in space, only a one-dimensional view of the earth is visible. Yes, it shows a slight curvature to imply that the rest of the earth is just like that point-of-view and, it may well be. However, it is still only a one dimensional view that can’t and doesn’t take Mt. Everest into consideration.

My own conclusion is that the earth is both spherical with highs and lows and flat wherever you are standing.

Ok, never mind. Don’t even think about this. We have bigger fish to fry.

The Up-Down theory:

When you’re standing in front of your house and you look at the sun, moon, stars, etc. they appear above you (up). So, you (we) conclude that there is both an up and a down in the universe; the sun is above the earth. Period. Wait a minute. You never went to the moon or any place “out-there. But, if you did and if you were to look at the earth, it too would be above you.

Let’s go to China; the bottom of the earth. Hmmmmmmmmm, no one is falling off the planet. How strange if, indeed, it were the bottom. Go to Africa or any other place that appears to be on “the side” of a globe…ah, that man-made globe again.
People don’t fall of the earth in China and they don’t walk on an angle attached to a track to keep them from falling off sideways.

Up and down is a concept. Period.