First, with a time-lapse video, I have shown that Polaris does not remain motionless throughout the night but rather goes through a small circular motion around the north celestial pole. I have demonstrated how two claims that many flat-earthers make about Polaris are false. What response do flat-earthers have to this fact? They generally deny it.ĭanny goes on for a couple of pages about that, but it’s not worth your time here, so let’s skip to the end: This is false because an effect called the precession of the equinoxes slowly but continually changes the position of Polaris in the sky. The second false claim flat-earthers make about Polaris is that Polaris has always been the pole star and always will be. But for some un-Godly reason, AIG doesn’t really believe in the firmament - see AIG Attempts To Explain the Firmament. There’s no biblical reason why the firmament can’t wiggle a little bit. That circle is too small to be readily noticed by the naked eye, and it is too small to be recorded by most photographs and time-lapse videos using standard camera lenses.ĭanny goes on for several paragraphs about the motion of Polaris, claiming that foolish flat-Earthers refuse to admit that it isn’t motionless. Danny says:Īch day Polaris makes a circle in the sky with a three-quarter degree radius. After that, Danny tells us about the Firmament, which Wikipedia (citing the bible) describes as a “vast solid dome created by God on the second day” which sits over the Earth and contains the stars. The bible makes it very clear that The Earth Is Flat. This is a strange post to find at a creationist website.

We call these two points the celestial poles. In the conventional cosmology, these two points are the extension of the earth’s rotation axis to where it intersects the celestial sphere. There are two diametrically opposite points on the celestial sphere around which all astronomical objects spin once a day.

Since most celestial objects rise and set, it is easy to understand that what we see at any given time is just one half of a celestial sphere. The sky appears as a dome above one’s location. Even long exposure photographs and time-lapse videos seem to show this too. That is the impression one gets by watching the sky over several hours. One of these false claims is that Polaris remains motionless in the sky as all other stars circle it. They say he has a PhD in astronomy from Indiana University, and he “works as a researcher, author, and speaker for Answers in Genesis.” Impressive! Here are some excerpts, with bold font added by us for emphasis, and occasional Curmudgeonly interjections that look :įlat-earthers make two false claims about Polaris (a.k.a. The post we’re writing about today is titled Does the North Star (Polaris) Prove the Earth Is Flat? Thia one was found at Answers in Genesis (AIG), the creationist ministry of Ken Ham (ol’ Hambo) - the ayatollah of Appalachia, the world’s holiest man who knows more about religion and science than everyone else.

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