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User: Flat Earth believers frequently use the phrase "water is always flat and level" as evidence for flat earth.

Flat Earth believers frequently use the phrase "water is always flat and level" as evidence for flat earth. They at the same time deny that gravity exists. How would water on a flat earth find it's level without gravity? Does that even make sense?

Assistant: No, it doesn't make sense.

No, it doesn't make sense. If flat-earthers deny gravity, they have no consistent explanation for why water would "find its level" at all. In physics, water behaves the way it does because of gravity—it pulls everything toward the center of mass (on Earth, that’s toward the core), causing water to settle into a level surface perpendicular to the force of gravity.

Without gravity, water wouldn’t "seek" anything. It would just float in blobs, as seen in zero-gravity environments like the International Space Station. If the flat Earth model rejects gravity, they need another force to explain why water spreads out and stays level instead of just drifting away. No such alternative force is ever convincingly presented.

So, their claim is self-contradictory. They use an observed phenomenon that depends on gravity while denying the very force that causes it.