Are the people in the Flat Earth Society....

...serious, or is the whole thing kind of tongue-in-cheek?

[link to theflatearthsociety.org]

I mean, say what you want about "Intelligent Design", a theological philosophy that poses as science. At least the whole thing can't be brought to its knees by a single photograph from space. Such is the faith-based nature of their "science".

But flat-earthers don't think their beliefs are based on faith. They propose what they think to be hard, legitimate science. It would be like a society that believes gravity isn't real, even as the chairman drops his paperwork on the way to the podium and has to bend over to pick it up.

So it's all a big joke, this flat Earth business, right? It has to be.