Editing Modern flat Earth beliefs (section)

===Criticism===
[[Eugenie Scott]] called the group an example of "extreme [[Biblical literalism|Biblical-literalist]] theology: The earth is flat because the Bible says it is flat, regardless of what science tells us".<ref>{{cite journal|last=Scott|first=Eugenie|year=1997|title=Antievolution and Creationism in the United States|url=http://www.kean.edu/~bregal/docs/Scott.history%20of%20creat.pdf|journal=Annual Review of Anthropology|volume=26|pages=263–289|doi=10.1146/annurev.anthro.26.1.263|author-link=Eugenie Scott|access-date=8 December 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120605065015/http://www.kean.edu/~bregal/docs/Scott.history%20of%20creat.pdf|archive-date=5 June 2012}}</ref>

According to some flat Earthers, the Flat Earth Society is a government-controlled organization whose true purpose is to make ridiculous claims about flat Earth and therefore discredit the flat Earth movement.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Picheta |first1=Rob |title=The flat-Earth conspiracy is spreading around the globe. Does it hide a darker core? |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/16/us/flat-earth-conference-conspiracy-theories-scli-intl/index.html |website=[[CNN]] |access-date=27 July 2022 |date=18 November 2019}}</ref>