Where did Dubay get this idea? Dubay’s “proof” number 133 mentions an article from the Maissue of The Lancet, the British medical journal that purportedly gave experimental results that moonlight has a cooling effect. This alleged cooling property of moonlight supposedly proves that the moon does not reflect the sun’s light but rather has its own light. Rather, they say that moonlight is “cool” or “cold,” while sunlight is “warm” or “hot.” So, where does this idea come from? Dubay (2015, 25–26) included discussion of the cooling property of moonlight as “proof” numbers 132 and 133 (out of 200). Notice that while these two quotes describe some rather bizarre properties of moonlight, neither one explicitly states that moonlight cools. I have myself long thought that the light of the Moon is Electric but, be that as it may, even a Board School child can perceive that its light is totally unlike that of the Sun. The Sun’s light is red and hot, the Moon’s pale and cold-the Sun’s dries and preserves certain kinds of fish and fruit, such as cod and grapes, for the table, but the Moon’s turns such to putrefaction-the Sun’s will often put out a coal fire, while the Moon’s will cause it to burn more brightly-the rays of the Sun, focused through a burning-glass, will set wood on fire, and even fuse metals, while the rays of the Moon, concentrated to the strongest power, do not exhibit the very slightest signs of heat. Where did he get such an idea? It probably came from David Wardlaw Scott’s book on the flat earth because its wording is very similar: The light which is reflected must necessarily be of the same character as that which causes the reflection, but the light of the Moon is altogether different from the light of the Sun, therefore the light of the Moon is not reflected from the Sun. This sounds very mystical and superstitious. When exposed to moonlight, however, plant and animal substances, tend to show symptoms of putrefaction and decay. Plant and animal substances exposed to sunlight quickly dry, shrink, coagulate, and lose the tendency to decompose and putrify grapes and other fruits become solid, partially candied and preserved like raisins, dates, and prunes animal flesh coagulates, loses its volatile gaseous constituents, becomes firm, dry, and slow to decay. The Sun’s rays decrease the combustion of a bonfire, while the Moon’s rays increase combustion. Where did this odd idea come from? Eric Dubay (2014, 79), who probably is most responsible for unleashing the flat-earth myth into the twenty-first century, has written about moonlight’s unusual properties: The Sun’s light is golden, warm, drying, preservative and antiseptic, while the Moon’s light is silver, cool, damp, putrefying and septic. The results of all three experiments disprove that moonlight is cooling. I devised and carried out three independent experiments to test this claim. That is, objects that are exposed to moonlight at night supposedly are cooler than objects that are shaded from the moon’s light. Here I will investigate one of the more peculiar claims made by many flat earthers, that the moon’s light is cooling. In another article (Faulkner 2017a), I showed that ships disappear hull first if atmospheric refraction due to a temperature inversion is not present. For instance, in one article (Faulkner 2016c), I showed that the flat-earth model predicts that the sun’s apparent size ought to change throughout the day as the sun’s distance from us changes, but observations show that this is not the case. In some of these articles I reported the results of experiments that I had performed to test predictions of the flat-earth model. Therefore, the flat-earth movement is a threat to Christianity and the authority of Scripture, as well as the creation science movement. Furthermore, the assumptions and the approach to Scripture of many flat earthers superficially resembles that of the creation science movement. This amounts to a straw man argument, leading to the wrong conclusion that the Bible is false. The claim that the Bible teaches the earth is flat first was made by skeptics in the nineteenth century in an attempt to discredit Scripture. The flat-earth phenomenon has grown tremendously over the past five years, and it has made serious inroads in the Christian community. Keywords: Flat earth, moonlight, heat Introduction
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