Yet walking the halls of the conference – where 650 people from around the world paid up to $350 to attend lectures about their horizontal idea of the planet – it’s not uncommon to see people praying over one another, discussing apocalyptic theories about “end times”, or swapping Bible verses that describe the Earth in a non-spherical fashion. That makes evangelical Christians one of largest and most enthusiastic groups who embrace the theory, but they are also one of the least reported on and one that causes immense controversy in their own community. The theories splinter off from there, with varying ideas about who is propagating misinformation about the Earth’s shape and why, but there are a number of unifying touchstones: Nasa, Freemasons, the “faked” moon landing, globalists, Elon Musk.īut perhaps the most common thread is the Bible, and the conviction of its fundamental truth. “I mean, I believed everything else, that the Earth was created in six literal days, but what about all this other stuff ? To be consistent as a biblical literalist, I can’t pick and choose.”ĭavid’s conversion to believing in a flat earth was only a few years ago, yet in that time he and scores of others around the globe – including a few celebrities – have subscribed to the idea that the Earth is shaped like a pancake.

“I’d first heard it in the Bible and thought ‘this can’t be true,’” he recalled, speaking with rapid excitement. The hotel is hosting the second annual Flat Earth International Conference – an event that Davidson himself founded and organized.

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