how do you explain recent prominent scientists, including Nobel Laureates whao are also committed Christians?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christians_in_science_...
These are peak scientists who have reconciled internally what you believe to be conflicting opposites.
Genius spruikers, exuberant showmen, I-can't-believe-you-fell-for-their-spiel operators.
For the most part.
The remainder are just plain crazy of the kind that can rote learn and regurgitate a four year ritual incantation exam course without deviation into critical thinking.
However you specifically asked about Flat Earthers .. and while I won't deny there are some genuine believers in a flat earth out there my experience is that most self described flat earthers with actual university engineering degrees from modern western culture are glorious LARP'ers keeping a straight face and pulling legs.
Much as I believe in a hyperbolic inverted universe within a hollow earth.
I mean, the math checks out, right?
https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:14770298
( Christian engineers are a whole other ball of wax .. but flat earthers that passed kinematics with varying mass from fuel loss to achieve escape velocity ... c'mon now )
Funnily enough, I used to work on a project called Hollow Earth. That team loved to joke around with conspiracy theories.
> dumb beliefs.
You sure about that though? There was no stone capable of turn base metal into gold - that knowledge of atomic transition via fission and fusion came later - but
( important point here )
a large amount of 'alchemy' worked just fine .. you followed the process and the stuff claimed happened just as the recipe said.
It did transform into what we now call chemistry.