Maybe the Earth is Flat
By Pastor Troy Keaton
IF
THE TITLE OF THIS article startles you,
perhaps it should. However, the question
over the shape of the earth seems to have
been answered long ago. Even the Bible affirmed this
in Isaiah 40:22: “It is He who sits above the CIRCLE of
the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who
stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads
them out like a tent to dwell in.”
Recently, this subject made major news when NBA
All-Star, Kyrie Irving, made a claim on a podcast that
the earth was indeed flat. This created quite a news story
with people asking him during the all-star weekend if he
actually denied such obvious reality.
Irving said: “This is not even a conspiracy theory. The
Earth is flat. It’s right in front of our faces. I’m telling you,
it’s right in front of our faces. They lie to us.” He later
reiterated those beliefs to ESPN’s Arash Markazi when
he said, “I think people should do their own research.
Hopefully, they’ll either back my belief, or they’ll throw
it in the water. But I think it’s interesting for people to
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find out on their own.” He went on to say, “I know the
science, and I don’t mind going against the grain in
terms of my thoughts.”
I know the earth is round, but I fully understand how
Irving can make such a claim. I am even surprised that
people are shocked to hear him say so. You might be
thinking, under what premise can someone legitimately
deny such a proven scientific reality? It’s very simple: in
a worldview that denies absolute truth and where truth
is relative, the earth can be flat. This is relativism, and it
is the prominent worldview in our society today. Rela-
tivism says, according to a Stanford University study in
2015, “There can be no framework-independent vantage
point from which the matter of whether the thing in ques-
tion is so can be established. Relativism has been, in its
various guises, both one of the most popular and most
reviled philosophical doctrines of our time. It is seen as a
harbinger of tolerance.”
This is a world where one can believe anything as
truth and be celebrated as “diverse.” Irving believes the