It's like saying a straight stick is proof of a bent stick.
No it isn't, it's like looking at the water and realising that although it may look flat to you, you are in fact very, very small beside a very gradual curve over a very, very large planet. Scale is key.
The global explanation when looked at with logic, is utter nonsense.
No, it appears as nonsense when you look at it without understanding
Nothing as long as people who argue for facts are honest in showing that it's down to appeals to authority and not any direct proof from themselves.
Bullshit! If that were the case this discussion would have ended months ago.
Progress can only be made when arguments gain an and product. In this case it's only facts that can create the end product and to get to the facts there has to be a lot of honest debate in acceptance of not having them but offering a potential for them until such a time where someone says " here you are, this is factual and we can go and prove this for ourselves."
I wasn't asking you how progress is made and I have no need for your word salad, I was telling you that if we all refused to accept anything not discovered for ourselves we would not progress.
"Want to know how I made my mud hut so you can put a roof over your head?"
"Fuck that for an appeal to authority, I'll sleep out in the forest if you don't mind"
The biggest problem is if everyone believes stories without proof. It means it offers no debate and offers no questioning of those stories put out as fact, without proof.
Like you believe in the non-globe Earth story without proof? Yeah I know, water level blah blah, like I said many pages ago, if you had one single scrap of faith in your 'theory' you'd have taken up the challenge to accurately measure some 'level water' or to learn about star maps, but you don't because they'd both wreck your cell world musings outright. No the biggest problem is not in believing without proof, it is in refusing to consider or accept proof when offered, when understanding that proof might mean you having to learn something first and re-evaluating your belief system afterwards.