Noel Hadley is a rabid fundie and a flat-earther with a number of self-published books to his name, perhaps most notably AVOID SCIENCE FALSELY SO-CALLED: Flat Earth, the Reformation, and the Science Delusion. We haven’t read it but wager a guess that the title tells you a lot about the book also beyond the case he is trying to make and how (nor have we read any of his other titles, such as Milennial Kingdom + Mud Flood). Hadley, who apparently used to be a professional wedding photographer, seems to be something of a mainstay at various flat-earth gatherings, and his presentations appear to make numerous fascinating and largely unintelligible claims also about other science-echoing issues. Did you know that Francis Crick’s discovery of the DNA was informed by ancient Egyptians because “did Pharaoh not wear a cobra on his crown as a symbol of the divine word and third eye – the pineal gland – by which true hidden knowledge might be discovered to the devoted initiate?” and cobras look a bit like DNA. Sort of. Also other cultures, like the Aztecs had ideas about DNA, since they talked about ladders going between heaven and Earth so gods could go up and down – yeah, we don’t quite follow the thread here but neither, we suspect, does Hadley; coherent chains of reasoning is not his style. Even young-earth creationist Danny Faulkner seems to have been somewhat baffled by Hadley’s presentation at a flat-earth conference he attended.
Hadley also appears to be a recurring feature on the youtube channel The Earth is NOT a globe, which purportedly offers “A Flat Earth versus the globe debate whether it be biblical or scientific or hopefully a little bit of both”. The adverb ‘hopefully’ seems to be doing some work there.
Diagnosis: As if all the nuts and bolts that hold ordinary reasoning together got unscrewed and the disparate elements rather got stuck together randomly with glue. His rants are somewhat fascinating at first, but one tires quickly. We wish we could dismiss him as harmless, but in these times …
Yet another, a combination of rank stupidity and fundy "religion."
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