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These competencies include explaining scientific phenomena, designing and evaluating scientific investigations, and interpreting scientific data and facts. These three competency indicators must be embedded in students to help them to solve problems and give the best responding to issues especially science issues, as well as “flat earth theory”. The purpose of this study was to describe students' scientific literacy competencies in responding to scientific issues “flat earth theory” and their indications in responding to issues. This research is a description research by questionnaire method and interview. The research subjects were 92 students in several high schools in Malang. The questionnaire results show that 95.65% of students rejected the \"flat earth theory\" . Among those who rejected the theory, 20.97% of respondents did not conduct an investigation to conclude the information of the theory. The interview results of this research indicate that students only relied on initial knowledge or initial information to conclude the issue.  \nKeywords: science literacy, physics issues, the flat earth theory, competence, students  \nINTRODUCTION  \nThe flat earth theory is not a new discussion on scientific science. The concept of flat earth had been constructed by the Babylonians since 2500 BC (Prahasta, 2001) . According to the Babylonians, this earth is a kind of floating disk on an ocean or slab. The adherents of the theory move massively till nowadays. On the modern era, the Flat Earth Theory movement was developed in England by Samuel Birley Rowbotham in 1850. Zateticism posited that the earth is not round but a wide plain, uneven and  \nunmovable (Brough, 1872) . The old basic concept of the flat earth theory believed that the earth was such spinning record, where the North Pole was in the middle of the record and the edge of the record was the south one with its high ice wall and no one had crossed it (Weinberg, 1986) . Recently, the concept of the flat earth theory has virally entered Indonesia through several justification videos about the flat earth.  \nDuring the beginning of modern technology development in the 21st century, science education and technology has become a developed benchmark of a country. The fast development specifically occurs on technology and globalization (Liu, 2009) . Science education primarily should be able to be applied to filter current technology development. Science education as a part of general education is responsible and has an important role to create and form critical, logic, creative, innovative, and globally competitive students (Abidin et al., 2017) . Science takes an important role in developing the character of the society and nation because of the fast progress of knowledge, the process efficacy to transfer to other fields, and the availability of value and attitude within (Rustaman, 2007) . In addition, there is also a correlation among the students’","cbCaiirzFjoBzGLJ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiirzFjoBzGLJ","pdf",557092,"English","# Keywords\n# Introduction\n## Scientific context of flat earth theory\n## Science education and scientific literacy\n# Method","[{\"question\":\"What competencies are included in students’ scientific literacy in this study?\",\"answer\":\"The study treats scientific literacy as the ability to explain scientific phenomena, design and evaluate investigations, and interpret scientific data and facts.\"},{\"question\":\"How was the research conducted and who were the participants?\",\"answer\":\"The research used questionnaire and interview methods with 92 students from several high schools in Malang.\"},{\"question\":\"What did the questionnaire and interviews show about students’ responses to the flat earth theory?\",\"answer\":\"Questionnaire results showed 95.65% of students rejected the theory; for those who rejected it, 20.97% did not conduct an investigation. 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