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I don't think it's particularly "disguised as science-based" any more than, say, Christian apologetics groups like Answers in Genesis. Both groups seem pretty h

by baddox 6y ago

I don't think it's particularly "disguised as science-based" any more than, say, Christian apologetics groups like Answers in Genesis. Both groups seem pretty honest about the fact that their fundamental beliefs are religious, and the pseudoscience they do is pretty explicitly in service of that.

metalliqaz 6y ago
Really? At least on YouTube, the main channels seem to put up exclusively pseudoscience. I didn't know how religious the movement was until I saw "Behind the Curve" from HBO.
- derefr 6y ago
  People don't tend to bother believing something weird without a motivation. I mean, there's contrarians, who believe all sorts of weird things just because they like the satisfaction of being proven right (which means they tend to only believe things that it seems like some fringe has evidence for somewhere.) But other than them, if you're taking a heterodox position on something, it tends to be because it confirms or fits in better with the rest of your existing world-view in some way. And in what world-view, does hypothesizing the Earth to be flat make things you already believe make more sense? A Creationist one.
  - tsegratis 6y ago
    Cool! Could you show me where in Genesis? The best I've found: He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers Or: He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing -- Funnily enough, Big Bang started as a Christian theory
    - macintux 6y ago
      https://christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-c017.html https://christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-c017.html
    - brlewis 6y ago
      > Funnily enough, Big Bang started as a Christian theory I don't think that's completely accurate, but it would be fair to say that resistance to the Big Bang theory was exacerbated by anti-religious sentiment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hoyle#Rejection_of_the_Big_Bang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hoyle#Rejection_of_the_Bi...

by baddox 6y ago

metalliqaz 6y ago

Really? At least on YouTube, the main channels seem to put up exclusively pseudoscience. I didn't know how religious the movement was until I saw "Behind the Curve" from HBO.

derefr 6y ago
People don't tend to bother believing something weird without a motivation. I mean, there's contrarians, who believe all sorts of weird things just because they like the satisfaction of being proven right (which means they tend to only believe things that it seems like some fringe has evidence for somewhere.) But other than them, if you're taking a heterodox position on something, it tends to be because it confirms or fits in better with the rest of your existing world-view in some way. And in what world-view, does hypothesizing the Earth to be flat make things you already believe make more sense? A Creationist one.
- tsegratis 6y ago
  Cool! Could you show me where in Genesis? The best I've found: He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers Or: He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing -- Funnily enough, Big Bang started as a Christian theory
  - macintux 6y ago
    https://christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-c017.html https://christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-c017.html
  - brlewis 6y ago
    > Funnily enough, Big Bang started as a Christian theory I don't think that's completely accurate, but it would be fair to say that resistance to the Big Bang theory was exacerbated by anti-religious sentiment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hoyle#Rejection_of_the_Big_Bang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hoyle#Rejection_of_the_Bi...