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Writer's pictureBible Brian

Why do flat earthers debate so much better than Evolutionists?


I'm willing to admit that I haven't met many flat earthers in my time. I've met, and debated a few, but they're so rare that I could probably count the ones I have met on my two hands. Nevertheless, it has been my experience that when flat Earthers do debate, they are significantly better at it than Evolutionists, with whom I have had far more experience.


I've never had a Flat Earther call me a bigot. I've never had a Flat Earther appeal to the authority of any scientist, much less the majority. I've never had a Flat Earther brag about their own qualifications. I've never had a Flat Earther claim the flat earth model is synonymous with science. I've never had a Flat Earther tell me if I don't believe the flat earth, I must not believe in gravity either. I've never had a Flat Earther tell me I don't understand the flat earth view just because I've said something that disagrees with them. Now, while I'm dealing with a very small sample size here, my general experience with Flat Earthers is that they are much quicker to attempt to defend their view with arguments.

Now, to be perfectly clear, I do not believe the flat earth view, nor is there any evidence that could realistically lead me to believe in the flat earth. But the irony is Flat Earth apologists put Evolutionists to shame on a regular basis, simply because they are so much better at defending their case. The flat earth model is demonstrably wrong. Literally, it is demonstrably wrong. We've been proving the earth is round for thousands of years, and now we have the capability of actually travelling into space, or at the very least launching something out there, and we even put things in orbit around our planet. Flat Earthers have lost their case simply because we can literally see that the earth is round.


But we can't see Evolution. Neither side of the origins debate has the advantage of repeatable observation. Creationists do have the added advantage of having a historical record to draw on, but even we did not see God breathe life into Adam, so the debate is a little harder to settle than the shape of the earth. So, why is it that Evolutionists, compared to Flat Earthers, are so unbelievably abysmal at defending their views?


The answer to this is that their views are just as indefensible, but with the advantage of being a societal norm. Evolution isn't science. Evolution is a man made religion designed to deny our accountability to God. But denying that accountability does not make it go away. A time will come when each of us will die, and God will judge us for every thought, every word and every deed. None of us really want what the inevitable outcome of that would be.

But praise be to God, He doesn't want us to receive it either. In fact, so little does He want this for us that He actively fought to remove our punishment from us. How? Through Jesus. Jesus, being God in flesh and a man without sin, was a worthy substitute for us. He stood before God as if He was us, and so through faith alone, we can stand before God as if we were Him.

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