So I have a born again christian family member in their mid twenties who stated with complete confidence that there is a dome in the sky called the firmament and beyond it is where heaven is. She believes space doesn’t exist and rockets just blow up because the bible said so. She is not the brightest and normally I would let this sort of nonsense go but I work in aerospace and have multiple pieces of hardware in space so she is either calling me ignorant or a malicious agent for the devil purposely lying for her so I got pretty annoyed. I can’t find anything about this dome in a google search about religion and I suspect she ended up on a flat-earth YouTube channel that twisted a line in the bible to fit their beliefs and didn’t actually get it from her church. I know its probably hopeless to help her understand how dumb and frankly insulting this belief is but I can possibly talk some reason if I understand the source.
Are there any major or minor religions, christian or other that believe space is a lie and only god is outside our atmosphere?
WDYM we also have a fixed understanding? I’m as fluid as science.
History is full of great and not so great scientists who just couldn’t accept a paradigm shift that totally changed their field of science.
Germ theory for example was a big one that got rejected by most of the medical scientists and professionals for decades.
I mean our conception is fixed to what we currently know. (Or “know”) in the broad scheme of things it would be rather rare to come across something that changes your fundamental understanding, right.
Looking back we can see that a lot of what people thought was straight up stupid. like barnacle geese… coming from… barnacles
But an observer looking back from far in the future at us… will likely see some of our beliefs as ridiculous.