Posted on 02/26/2018 10:51:19 AM PST by nickcarraway
The former Jets and Giants quarterback wants to know whether you think the Earth is round
A short time after Geno Smith retweeted this Saturday from televangelist Joel Osteen -- "Your time is too valuable, your destiny is too great, your assignment too important to get baited into battles that don't matter." -- the former Jets and Giants quarterback posed this question:
Geno ✔ @GenoSmith3 I been studying this whole flat earth vs globe thing... and I think I may be with Kyrie on this... b4 you judge do some HW but what do you guys think?
9:23 AM - Feb 24, 2018 3,180 3,180 Replies 1,995 1,995 Retweets 3,891 3,891 likes Twitter Ads info and privacy That would be Kyrie Irving, NBA star who said last November that his "research" didn't turn up "one real picture of Earth."
Twitter wasted little time responding to Smith, who sounded sincerely like he wanted to get to the bottom of a great debate that was decided more than 2,000 years ago.
I find it funny how you all assume I believe Earth is flat lol I just think you guys should have an open mind because as we know a lot of the “truths” that we thought were true actually aren’t 🤷🏾♂️
9:57 AM - Feb 24, 2018 234 234 Replies 73 73 Retweets 202 202 likes Twitter Ads info and privacy This tweet, for example, is proof enough for most of us:
24 Feb
I been studying this whole flat earth vs globe thing... and I think I may be with Kyrie on this... b4 you judge do some HW but what do you guys think?
Jake Hamby @jhamby Proofs of a non-flat Earth: - how time zones work - distant ships sink below the horizon - Eratosthenes figured out the Earth's circumference 2,000 years ago by measuring shadows in different places. - all pilots aren't lying about distances & routes. - how GPS / Glonass work.
9:47 AM - Feb 24, 2018 38 38 Replies 78 78 Retweets 1,028 1,028 likes Twitter Ads info and privacy And noted astrophysicist Carl Sagan explained some 40 years ago exactly how Eratosthenes proved the Earth was a sphere.
Smith later tweeted about the Big Bang theory and evolution too.
Geno ✔ @GenoSmith3 How many of the people who undoubtedly know Earth is a globe also believe in the Big Bang theory & evolution?
10:15 AM - Feb 24, 2018 196 196 Replies 64 64 Retweets 105 105 likes Twitter Ads info and privacy By Saturday afternoon, the soon-to-be free agent received several thousand Twitter responses before ultimately coming to this conclusion:
Hey guys I’m glad we had this talk today it was fun lol I know how you all love to debate on Twitter so this was good... for the record Earth is a globe we know this. But why not listen to someone else’s beliefs or “truth”
12:36 PM - Feb 24, 2018 122 122 Replies 22 22 Retweets 167 167 likes Twitter Ads info and privacy So there we have it. Smith thinks the Earth is a globe. No word on where he stands with mermaids and dinosaurs.
Mermaids be real enough in these waters, mark me words.
Sea serpents too. Big enough to eat blue whales.
I would not be surprised to find out this whole flat-earth thing is an experiment to determine the limits of how nonsensical an issue you can post on the internet and get a significant number of precious snowflakes to believe it.
Product of West Virginia University
I knew I should skipped this one. How can I get the time back that I spent reading this.
Geno is blessed with a Broward county education.
FACTOID
IF THE EARTH WERE FLAT, CATS WOULD HAVE PUSHED EVERYTHING OFF BY NOW.
END OF DISCUSSION!!!!!
Yeah, well, the laws of physics are some of those truths that are actually true.
“Here there be monsters”
Good point.
It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in…The spherical earth is affirmed in the Bible. Never mind endless observation from our aircraft and spacecraft, and proven long before that by multiple circumnavigations of the globe in ships.
— Isaiah 40:22
Geno be a deep thinker for sure.
Hey Reno, read Isiah 40:22.
You beat me too it!
He could actually use that verse to support it being flat. Isiah says a circle, not a sphere. They could argue the earth is flat and round. Geometrically it is a sphere, not a circle.
“because as we know a lot of the “truths” that we thought were true actually aren’t...”
Like global warming maybe...
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