Many creationists resented being lumped with Johnson, but they actually shared his logic and approach to science, relying on scripture as the ultimate authority in science and demanding that "common sense" and direct observation were the only tools needed or even allowed in scholarship. ![]() "Greaseball" was his universal term for round-earthers who, he noted, would obviously slide off a spherical earth. His flamboyant newsletter was contemptuous of fellow creationists who accepted GREASEBALL EARTH THEORY (he tended to capitalize every third word or so) because they were not true biblical literalists. He sincerely believed that a literal reading of the Bible required one to recognize that the world is flat. Johnson succeeded the late Samuel Shenton of Dover, England, as head of the often-ridiculed organization, which steadfastly opposed evolution and most of the physics, geology, and astronomy of the past half millennium.Īs former NCSE president Bob Schadewald stressed, Charlie was "on the level". ![]() ![]() Charles K Johnson, president of the International Flat Earth Society for almost 30 years, died in March at age 76.
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