> a religious belief connected to biblical literalism.
As one flat earther put it: "If we are monkeys on a spinning ball then there is no god."
They want to have been created as the centre of the universe. Being on an insignificant rock around a mediocre sun on the edge of one of millions of galaxies just doesn't make them feel important enough to overcome the failure that they were told they were all through school.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
