Essay On Flat Earth Society

The Flat Earth Society

The Earth, the planet that we humans call home. We are the third planet in our solar system that rotates around the sun every three-hundred and sixty-five days. This is commonly accepted fact by almost all societies. Well, all societies except for one. This last hold out is known as the Flat Earth Society, and they specifically prescribe to the belief that the Earth is flat and not round. They spread news around that NASA is lying to the public and spreading rumor around that the Earth is round. What the Flat Earth Society is doing today is spreading around fake news, which is wrong and deceitful. This modern day information will prove that the Earth is round, and that the Flat Earth Society is spreading fake news in the media to justify their own false claims.

That is, until the Greek philosopher Aristotle came up with the round Earth theory. "Again, our observations of the stars make it evident, not only that the Earth is circular, but also that it is a circle of no great size. For quite a small change of position to south or north causes a manifest alteration of the horizon" (Hogenboom, pg.1). Even with this information, most of the societies on the planet still believed that the Earth was flat for the next thousand years. Most of this was due to the fact that the church was still telling people about the flat Earth model that Socrates had come up with around the 6th century B.C.E. This was the case all the way up until the Renaissance period in the 15th century. Even then, there were a few hold outs that still believed the Earth was flat, like China. Even they soon subscribed to the round Earth theory, and it looked like the flat Earth theory was about to become a false theory. This wasn’t the case. In the early years of the 21st century, a group called the Flat Earth Society was created by members that completely believed that the Earth was, indeed,