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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

is round. The idea that “The Earth is
round” thus remains a delusion. The sci-
entists return to their time machine and
to the present day, without having
proved anything. 26
According to McFarlane, the rea-
son why these time-travelers were un-
able to convince anyone the Earth is
round is that we humans are so very small
in comparison to the Earth. Since our
experiment is confined to a geo-
graphically very small area, the
Earth appears to be flat, even
though it is not actually so. In other
words, the flatness observed on Earth is not a true flatness at
all, because the Earth is not flat. This is only an illusory flatness
caused by the immense size of the Earth.
In order to prove that the Earth is round, we need to go be-
yond our day-to-day limitations. For instance, we could fly around
the world in a plane, or we could go up into space in a rocket. But
when limited to our day-to-day experiences, we have no evidence
that the flatness we perceive is an illusion. Similarly, we have no
reason not to believe that the Earth is flat.
After citing this example, McFarlane goes on to say:

If people have been so deluded about reality in the past, how can we
be so sure that we are not deluded now? As we have seen, just be-
cause our present notions of reality are consistent with our ordinary
experience, does not make them true. Since our experience certainly
has its limits, perhaps our idea of the objective world really is an il-
lusion, just as much an illusion as the idea of a flat Earth. 27

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