Shouldn´t we KNOW that the Earth is flat and that the sun revolves around us?

Question

Well... only if faith was so superior to scientific demonstrated knowledge... I´ll stick with what can be proven.

Answer 1

Tesseract! Awesome user name from an awesome book!

I think I'll stick to not being so arrogant as to think the universe was created for the benefit of my species. Fact is, the universe doesn't revolve around us - literally or figuratively.

Answer 2

People knew the earth wasn't flat the moment ships were invented. Ships don't fall off the horizon. The curve of the earth was easily spotted. That'd be.. what, around the time of Noah?

The sun revolving around the earth was the scientific theory of the time, part of the scientific community, not the church. Unfortunately, the church went along with the pressure from the current reigning scientific community when the theory that the earth revolved around the sun was presented, resulting in an animosity we can see today between the current reigning scientific theory of a naturalistic humanist's old earth, evolutionary theory and those scientists who support Biblical creatonism.

Please, examine your words before you say them; history's more interesting than "Church bad, Science good."

Answer 3

Well I believe in Bible cause that is part of my faith.
But the Bible today is not in its original shape. It has so many things which people wrote in it and changed it from original shape.

The science has proved that earth and other planets are oval shaped(not completed circle) and its revoles around the sun.

Bible also says that moon has its own light.

While Quran( muslims holy book) said it 1500 years ago that moon does not have its own light and also proves the big bang theory that all these plants, sun and star came into existance together.

I dont know exactly but i heard Quran also says, Earth is oval and in motions

Answer 4

A lot things that have been "proven" by science have ended up being dis-proven years later. Science is great, but it has it's faults b/c those doing the proving are humans. God gives us the freedom to believe what we want. And by the way, you apparently do have faith in science.

Answer 5

The Bible says....

The earth is round...

Isaiah 40:21 Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? 22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;

...and it hangs upon nothing in outer space...

Job 26:6 Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering. 7 He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing.

Answer 6

Gosh no! You should have your toenails ripped out and then be hung by your entrails for the blasphemy you dare utter in the Lord's presence! The earth IS flat. Human bodies ARE capable of living for 700+ years. Dinosaurs NEVER really existed.

P.S. "I´ll stick with what can be proven."... me too!

Answer 7

Yeah, most people say that wasn't in the Bible but it was. It clearly states that the Earth does not and cannot be moved in Psalms 93:1 and Psalm 104:5, and Ecclesiastes 1:5. But most people will tell you you're interpretting it wrong.

Answer 8

The Catholic Church did not accept that the Earth revolved around the Sun until sometime in the 1980's. So, appearntly, even pictures from outerspace are not enough for the religious.

Answer 9

the newspaper said the son rose at 5:35 am did it not?

this is just a phase guy...

the Bible ,however, speaks of the circle of the earth and God hanging the earth on nothing (in Isaiah and Job)

Answer 10

But you can't prove the existence or lack thereof of god. We can prove air, so we believe in air. Give it the benefit of the doubt (though lean towards "Everyone on earth is wrong") because that's what the proof is; there isn't any either way.

Agnostic... POWAAAAAA!