By the way, I tried to bring this eclipse up with a Flat-Earther at work. I made the mistake of bringing up the Sun, and that triggered him into preaching about the Son of God. The Flat-Earthers all seem to be Biblical Literalists:

I wonder whether we sciency types might be responsible for the resurgence of Flat-Earthism:

When they supported Creationism with Biblical examples, we pointed out the evidence for an old universe and biological evolution and pointed out that they cherry-picked. On the cherry-picking front, we pointed out that they Bible says that the Earth is flat. I suspect, that rather than making them take the Bible less Literally, we made them believe that the Earth is flat by pointing out that is what the Bible says.

Pointing out facts doesn't work with these people. You have to ask them why they need the Earth to be flat.

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Indeed. Unfortunately, the answer is "¡The Bible says so!".

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Trying to defeat the logic loops of true religious fanatics is like teaching a paraplegic person how to kick.