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> Numbers Wrote:
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> > > LOL. Typical fool that treats his atheism
> like
> > a
> > > religion. The myth of the Flat Earth is one
> of
> > > the bullshit things you continue to believe
> > > despite evidence to the contrary. How does
> > this
> > > make you any less gullibly stupid than
> someone
> > who
> > > believes in creationism?
> >
> > Really?
> >
> > Isaiah 11:12
> > 12 And he shall set up an ensign for the
> nations,
> > and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and
> > gather together the dispersed of Judah from the
> > FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH. (KJV)
> >
> > Revelation 7:1
> > 1 And after these things I saw four angels
> > standing on FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH, holding
> the
> > four winds of the earth, that the wind should
> not
> > blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any
> > tree. (KJV)
> >
> > Job 38:13
> > 13 That it might take hold of the ENDS OF THE
> > EARTH, that the wicked might be shaken out of
> it?
> > (KJV)
> >
> > Jeremiah 16:19
> > 19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my
> > refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles
> > shall come unto thee from the ENDS OF THE
> EARTH,
> > and shall say, Surely our fathers have
> inherited
> > lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no
> > profit. (KJV)
> >
> > Daniel 4:11
> > 11 The tree grew, and was strong, and the
> height
> > thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight
> thereof
> > to the ENDS OF ALL THE EARTH: (KJV)
> >
> > Matthew 4:8
> > 8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an
> exceeding
> > high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms
> of
> > the world, and the glory of them; (KJV)
>
> Correct me if I am wrong, but the flat earth
> theory was a fable wasn't it? The Greeks proved
> the Earth was round long before the Bible, and by
> the time of the Middle Ages, most folks knew the
> Earth was not flat. Don't mistake common
> phraseology for belief in a flat earth. Most
> people say "I will chase you to the ends of the
> Earth" when they cursed folks, etc.
>
> Flat Earth (wiki):
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth
> "The false belief that medieval Christianity
> believed in a flat earth has been referred to as
> The Myth of the Flat Earth.[5] In 1945, it was
> listed by the Historical Association (of Britain)
> as the second of 20 in a pamphlet on common errors
> in history.[6] The myth that people of the Middle
> Ages believed that the Earth was flat only entered
> the popular imagination in the 19th century,
> thanks largely to the publication of Washington
> Irving's fantasy The Life and Voyages of
> Christopher Columbus in 1828.[5]"
>
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Eart
> h
>
> "The myth of the Flat Earth is the modern
> misconception that the prevailing cosmological
> view during the Middle Ages saw the Earth as flat,
> instead of spherical. During the early Middle
> Ages, virtually all scholars maintained the
> spherical viewpoint first expressed by the Ancient
> Greeks. By the 14th century, belief in a flat
> earth among the educated was essentially dead.
> Flat-Earth models were in fact held at earlier
> (pre-medieval) times, before the spherical model
> became commonly accepted in Hellenistic
> astronomy.[1]
>
> According to Stephen Jay Gould, "there never was a
> period of "flat earth darkness" among scholars
> (regardless of how the public at large may have
> conceptualized our planet both then and now).
> Greek knowledge of sphericity never faded, and all
> major medieval scholars accepted the earth's
> roundness as an established fact of
> cosmology."[2]
>
> David C. Lindberg and Numbers point out that
> "there was scarcely a Christian scholar of the
> Middle Ages who did not acknowledge sphericity
> and even know its approximate
> circumference".[3][4]
>
> Jeffrey Burton Russell says the flat earth
> mythology flourished most between 1870 and 1920,
> and had to do with the ideological setting created
> by struggles over evolution.[5]
>
> * "... with extraordinary few exceptions no
> educated person in the history of Western
> Civilization from the third century B.C. onward
> believed that the earth was flat."[6]
> * Russell concludes that Irving, Draper and
> White were the main writers responsible for
> introducing the erroneous flat-earth myth that is
> still with us today."[7][8]
>
> In 1945 the Historical Association listed
> "Columbus and the Flat Earth Conception" second of
> twenty in its first-published pamphlet on common
> errors in history.[9]"
Yes, you are correct. But for zealous atheists, like Numbers, this is one of the many myths they cling to do justify their atheism. Despite all evidence to the contrary, they perpetuate this myth ad nauseum. There is no historical or scientific evidence to support their claim. In fact there is direct evidence refuting it, yet they continue to "preach" it as doctrine. Sound familiar?