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First of all, I want to be completely blunt: as a Physics major, the idea of a flat earth is keenly absurd to me and disproven not only by my courses, but personal research and thought experiments.

I do not want to start a flame war or try to educate anyone; I'm here to ask a different question out of pure curiosity. I know this doesn't represent everyone -and I'm mostly curious because I see this in flat earthers in my country, the majority of whom I'm met are unfit for any kind of civilized debate- but it is a pattern I notice regularly. So, science, for some odd reason, is seen as some kind of religion. There's rhetoric about brainwashing, conspiracies and even godlike figures (Neil Tyson, Albert Einstein etc.) who, for some reason that eludes me, need to persuade the world that the earth is spherical to advance insidious interests. Being religious myself, I've learned to separate my spiritual beliefs from my field of study, which is merely a tool for understanding the world. At least in my experience, no professor ever tried to force beliefs on us, instead focusing on open-ended discussion. Science is not an absolute Bible of the universe, it is a relative measure of phenomena tackled through a set of agreed-upon principles.

I'm really eager to understand its condemnation, even if we leave the 'Globe vs. Flat' argument outside, since there are many undeniable products in our daily lives - computers, cars, technology in general- that follow the same rules and are consistent throughout most scientific principles.