Startling Discrepancies Between The Facts and Modern Theories

From an old flat earth booklet, date and title unknown; it could be late 1800’s.

Retyped for your reading pleasure.

Compare the following startling discrepancies between the true facts and modern theories; and then say if it is not a natural disgrace that we should prefer such baseless superstitions, for the mere credit’s sake of a few infidel scientists.

Modern astronomy and its crafty or, most deluded sycophants teach that “the sun is stationary and the centre of the planetary or celestial bodies, and that it is over one million miles larger than the earth!”

Whereas, it is not one thousandth part of its size – is constantly moving in spiral orbits, round and over the face of the motionless earth; increasing the latitude of those orbits about 10 or 11 miles every day from June to December, and decreasing them in the same proportion from December to June.

The astronomer now teach that the Sun’s distance from the Earth is from 92 to 93 million miles; whereas, it is proved to be under 2,400 miles, and the stars and planets even less than that.

So far from the Earth being a planet and “very much inferior in size to all the other planets but Mars,” it is no part at all of the celestial system; but is wholly distinct and far superior in size and character to all the planets put together, which exhibit very little variety in size among themselves, and no parallax whatever, when viewed under any possible conditions!

The astronomers again assert the earth to be revolving and rotating Globe, with an axial speed of over 1,000 miles an hour, and an orbital speed of over 1,000 miles per minute! Whereas, it is an absolutely motionless plane, surrounded by a barrier of impassable icebergs, extending into unknown regions, where “day and night come to an end,” or, in other words, cease to be distinguished, and will only be removed when “there shall be no more sea;” and a “new firmament and a new Earth” shall replace this sin-stained and misused world.

The astronomers teach an atmospheric pressure of 15 pounds on the square inch; whereas, it does not amount to half as many grains.

Gravitation (central), is the wildest fiction ever invented.

All Attraction – solar, lunar, central and magnetic, is purely conjectural and physically impossible.

The astronomers further declare that this globe has no material support, but is sustained and controlled in its terrific orbits by solar attraction only, at a distance of nearly 100 million miles; although Sire Isaac Newton himself declares the idea was “grossly preposterous and discreditable to any rational mind;” meaning, of course, that the “centripetal and centrifugal forces” were hypothetical conditions only, and like all the other data on which the Copernican theory was founded, were purely geometrical devices, which no one in their sober senses ever thought could be illustrated by an appeal to facts. But such was the ignorance or bigotry of his professional friends, that they would not allow even Sir Isaac Newton himself to publish his repeated disclaimers of being anything more than a mathematical inventor or formulator of a system which was in no degree dependent on the truth of his premises.

The rank of absurdity and downright impossibility of any one of its most elementary conditions, and the fact that no man of honour or scientific reputation would venture openly to defend it, ought to secure the instant rejection of it by every lover of truth in the world. The whole thing lies in a nutshell. All that is insisted upon is, that results or conclusions drawn from conjectural theories of philosophy, however plausible and apparently simple they may be, are wholly worthless and unworthy of any claim to rank as true science, till they have been proved correct by actual experimental demonstration, and can be thus confirmed and illustrated as often as their truth is challenged or denied. Even if a theory be true in the abstract, yet, if incapable of practical demonstration, it is not science, merely to suppose or assert it to be true. Newton himself was too sound a philosopher to attempt to illustrate the truth of the globular theory; he repeatedly discouraged all discussion, and, if left to himself, would never have attached his name or sanction to such a bungling absurdity.

This is the ground on which the ZETETICS take their stand, and all the professors in the kingdom will strive in vain to dislodge them; and, what is more, they are too cowardly to attempt it.

The above is so startling an exposure that the public press is ashamed to announce it; although the globular theory has been shown to be a Pagan superstition, unscriptural, irrational, unscientific, and physically impossible!

The true cosmogony of the Universe should be the primary subject, and one which ought to take precedence of every other on which the mind of a child can possibly be engaged. Ignorance of its true nature is a gross scandal on all connected with any phase of education, either religious or secular; and the imposition of a fraud which the intelligent child soon learns to detect, exerts a positive injury on the mind all through life. At the present moment there is not a teacher in the kingdom who would venture – to prove himself familiar with the most elementary principles of natural science; and yet the writer is abused for declaring the world is full of knaves or dunces. Even savages never boast of being wiser than they are, or teach their children what they know to be untrue.

Never before was there such a fuss made about education. Do we really know or only think we know ? Or is it learn, learn, learn,—and Jeave off no wiser than before? If bricks and mortar could make brain’s— j£ fine buildings could ensure great thoughts—if learned professors knew all that they profess, Thomas Carlyle would have belied his countrymen when he said we were a nation of “mostly fools.”

What is our standard of true knowledge? an imperfect standard is as misleading as defective weights If we deal with false analogies, we are only comparing true metal with an ingenious counterfeit!

What are we aiming at by these remarks? We mean to say and are able to prove that at this moment, we are living in an age of shams and false pretences, and that we are totally unfamiliar with the most elementary conditions of some of the most important subjects that can possibly occupy the attention of a professedly intelligent and commercial nation;— that even our Clergy and Theological professors do not yet understand the teaching of the Mosaic records;—that our Schoolmasters, on some subjects, do not understand or know more than their pupils; that even our nautical charts and tables would discredit a nation of savages; and that our geography and astronomy are just where they were left by our university authorities of two hundred years ago; and that the most eminent of our educational professors would not now venture to defend what our poor children are compelled to carry with them through life.

What shall we say to those “ Scientific” Journalists and Reviewers who persistently discourage any desire for discussion or ventilation of this importeint subject? Is it to hide their own ignorance or to display a mock contempt for any suggestion that runs counter to popular prejudice or opinion; or do they go so far as to imply that they cannot find among their numerous literary connexion, one individual writer who has intelligence enough to maintain his ground in a discussion with an honest

opponent ? It is a gross fraud on the credulity of the public as well as on the helplessness of childhood to enforce the acceptance of certain teaching which they are too ignorant to explain or too cowardly to defend.

If modem astronomical science could be shewn to be demonstrably true, how’ glorious would be the victory, and how, dire our confusion! But till they cease their insolent taunts and courteously show us our error and the inutility of our opposition, we shall certainly not cease to regard them as vanquished foes, who lack the moral courage to acknowledge their defeat.

And we can but trust that when Prof. This or Prof. That ventures to pose as a Scientist or as an oracle on scientific subjects, he will learn to exhibit a little more modesty and confess that for once in his life, he had to bow to the superior influence of common sense, and, above all, to the omnipotent authority of the inspired records.

As it is. Science is irredeemably prejudiced in the eyes of all honest men and can never again assume those insolent airs which have so frequently disfigured its encounters with the less dogmatic searchers after truth.