And yet, it will always be like that. If there is one thing the history of science can teach us, it is that when man is wrong about a theory it can take many, many years to overturn it. The Geocentric theory got around 2000 years of defense until the overthrow by Galileo, Kepler, and Copernicus.
So, for those of us that like accurate science, we are sometimes in for a wait to have nonsense removed. I am just not sure how long we will have to wait on man-made global warming, long-earth, and evolution theory to get out of the way.
And here we are in the year 2018 and we still have people believing that the Earth is flat. The problem with these people, just as with the geocentrists before them, is that they deny the evidence proving them wrong when it is given to them.
I think most of these people will go to their graves continuing to believe that they were right. Science is not the problem. Willful ignorance is the issue. It needs to be shamed and destroyed by continuous ridicule. Flat earthers need to be evicted from Free Republic. They are a disgrace to this forum.
You could literally round up a half dozen of these crazies, put them on a rocket, launch them into space and return them to earth, they would be convinced it was all just an elaborate illusion.
It’s like trying to explain the science to a Man Made Global Warming liberal.