THE EARTH IS NOT ROUND

The argument of scientists to prove that earth is round by saying that if one travels in the same direction throughout, one can come back to the very place from where one had started, is as good as befooling children. Some evidences cited below have been set aside after proper consideration to prove that the earth is not round.

American explorers of South Pole report that “The time for the morning twilight to the south of equator must be as much as it is to the North of it. But it is not so. The morning twilight of the North of the Equator on 40` latitude is one hour or sixty minutes, where as on 40` south of it, it is only five minutes.” This fact arouses doubt about the roundness of the earth.

Rev. Father Johnson traveled to the Southern latitudes. He writes in his autobiography that “Here the morning twilight and the evening twilight last for only five to seven minutes. We make all the preparations for the night, as soon as the sun reaches the horizon, because here dense darkness prevails immediately after the sunset.” Such an account from the autobiography of the explorer raises a question in our mind.

In 1838 AD Capt. Ross attempted with Capt. Froshire to go as far as he could to the south of the Mediterranean line in the Atlantic circle on the side to the sea he found a strong wall of snow. It was about 400 to 1000 feet high. Its top surface was even, it had no crevices. He began to walk on it with curiosity. Suffering great many hardships, he walked on constantly. He thus walked over 40000 miles and yet the snow. Wall did not end. Being exasperated he turned back. How could this happen if the earth is round?

Reports of the Surveyors Institution of America tell us that, “One degree of latitude towards the tropic of cancer covers 50 miles. Then the distance in miles decreases as one proceeds to the North Pole. In the same way one degree of latitude towards the Tropic of Capricorn covers 75 miles, and then the distance in miles increases as one proceeds towards the South. Towards the South Pole one degree of latitude covers 103 miles.” Why so? In fact if the earth is round each degree of latitude must cover the same distance in miles in both the North as well as South.

The explorers of the North Pole reports that towards the North Pole it is extremely difficult to lift up even 100 lbs. of weight. Whereas the South Pole reports that towards the South Pole it is extremely easy to lift up a weight of even 300 to 400 lbs. Why this difference?

In the Arctic Circle correspondingly there should be nights and days of 3 months each, but it is not so. As shown in the Nautical Almanac published by the Jury of full three Navigation at Washington the longest day in the South is of 16 hours and 56 minutes on the settled island on 70` latitude, whereas on the same latitude in the North Norway at Hamerfast the longest day is of North is of North in full three months. Why are there such differences?

Captain Mill reports in the account of his travels that in the Arctic Regions one can see as far as 40 miles, but the explorers of North Pole say that one very easily sees there as far as 150 to 200 miles. Why and how does this happen?

Let us take an illustration of a merry-go-round which spins like a top. Any person riding such a wheel comes back to the same place from where he starts, in spite of so many turns taken by the merry-go-round. In this way, the Journey around the earth is made either from East to west or from West to East. Why only this one circular route is taken around the earth? Why not the other one from the North to South or from South to the North?

It is a well accepted principle that rivers flow down from higher regions to the lower ones. If the earth had been round, all the rivers to the North equator would have flowed from the South to the North and similarly in the other side. But it is not so in reality. Most of the rivers among the Himalayas for North to the South.

A British ship ‘Challenge’ took 3 years to circumambulate from the South. It journeyed over 69000 miles. If the earth had been round this voyage would not have taken such a long time. In feet it took six times the time it must take according to the supposed curvature of the earth. If the earth had been round on that latitude the circumstance of the earth can be 10800 miles. Then how can the hypothesis the earth is round can stand?

A big canal in China is 700 miles long. When it was constructed no thought was given to the curvature of the earth. This Chinese canal is a challenge to those who say that the earth is round.

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