yeah. its ridiculous. Rather than accept that there's some inaccuracies and that parts of the bible contain mistakes and say something like "but most of it is true" .... they double down, triple and quadruple down. They have to get increasingly improbable theories to explain how all this evidence isn't really real. Fossils are planted by satan, to lead people astray; there's a massive World Order whose sole job is to keep this secret for some strange reason.

like. they could just build a rocket and launch it into space and see for themselves. Or some really simple experiments involving sticks and shadows. that allowed them to determine the distance of the sun from the earth, it's circumference, and can be replicated with some lumber and fifty bucks in the gastank.

Technically, this isn't even a case of religion going crazy. The flat Earth conspiracy actually started out in the German Nazi party and were eventually pushed out because even the Nazis thought they were too crazy.

Notice how many of them mention a vague "they" as the ones maintaining the conspiracy. That's them referring to Jewish people. While this is notmal for most conspiracy theories, few directly originated from the Nazis.

If you want more detail, there's a couple episodes of Behind the Bastards explaining it. I recommend giving them a listen