They also can't explain why God made would make the Earth flat yet everything else in space including the moon is obviously round.

continuous 500-year history of circumnavigation

Here was my challenge to FE-adherents: https://searchvoat.co/v/GreatAwakening/3866685

Another issue, brought to bear on the matter, is the compass sailing circumnavigation. It does proof, the ability to sail around a central point. In and of itself it does not proof the earth to be a globe, as in a flatearth representation is clearly shown. It only means, one could circumnavigate around a central point, this being north pole.

When consulting a traditional Flat earth map, and I am going to go with this one:

https://chizzlewit.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/flat-earth-map-1.jpgJPG

It clearly shows how to navigate from Auckland, New Zealand, to the rugged coast of Chili,Prta Isabel, located on the Darwin Canal, or to the Colombian Coast near Buenaventura (about same longitude)

According to navionics, to sail both these destinations: 1.Prta Isabel: Distance: 4923 miles. Heading 97 degrees on the compass. 2.Buenaventura Columbia: 7322 miles, Heading 68 degrees on the compass.

In both cases no, course alterations have to be made, except for maybe an Island or two.

In your flat Earth representation, for the shortest route, I would have to go North -easterly 41 on the compass and it would take several alterations in course to reach destination by default. The route, in both cases, is to go all the way up to California, en than down south to either Chili or Colombia. I would say, at least double the distance.

As an alternative, it is possible to maintain a easterly course along the 33 parallel South, and I would then end up in Ptra Isabel, however, the distance is at least double the distance as calculated by Navionics.

I'd dare you to take a boat and test your FE hypothesis and take that trip. I would be interested in knowing your heading and distance covered.

I have repeated that challenge twice on this site with FE-adherent. So far, not one has taken the challenge.

I guess that 20.000 Federal Reserve Notes had been better spent on a voyage like the above then such a demonstration wrought with all kinds of variations.