Category: Science Denial

• The "Flat Earth" Revival of 1914

  This theory describes the resurgence of modern flat-earth belief in 1914, when religious anti-scientific movements and zetetic traditions gave renewed force to the claim that the globe was a fraud concealing God’s firmament. The most historically visible focal point of this revival was Wilbur Glenn Voliva of Zion, Illinois, who publicly preached flat-earth doctrine beginning in 1914 and tied it to biblical authority, anti-modernism, and hostility to scientific expertise. In conspiracy form, the globe became not merely a scientific error but a deliberate lie used to suppress divine truth.