Forget what you learned in elementary school the earth is flat as a pancake. All that stuff about the earth being round and the sun being the center of the universe is a big joke, insists C.K. Johnson, the one time president of the International Flat Earth Research Society, who died in 2001. The group takes great pleasure in poking fun at "globites." Did you know you were being insulted in that way? "You Globite!"

The organization, backed by 1400 members from around the world...or rather, from across the plane, still gets scads of mail from dedicated teachers and students who blast it as a group of kooks and charlatans. Maybe it is, but Johnson claims the society's largest single group of members is doctors. Then come lawyers and other professional people, like engineers and architects. I think the make up of their members is fabricated. Why? Because they dismiss modern science as a club for sun worshippers and write off the American and Russian space programs as multi-billion dollar hoaxes. So the majority of their members are scientist but they reject modern science?

Johnson once famously said: "The moon walk was done in a Hollywood set. All faked," Johnson's a former airplane mechanic. Furthermore, he and his followers insist the sun is not stationary and does not set. They figure it to be a gigantic spotlight, 32 miles across, that moves in an ellipse just 3000 miles above the center of the earth. The other stars are just a lot of tiny holes poked in a huge canopy covering this planet.

Do Flat Earthers believe in anything? Here's what they say, "We believe the Earth is flat. Everything else is pure conjecture." Now that's an airtight system of thought. We on the other hand do not believe in vain stories with no proof. Remember Peter's words: For we did not follow cleverly devised stories when we told you about the coming of our LORD Jesus Christ in power, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. And the words of John: That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched-this we proclaim concerning the Word of life.