Science= there own understandings?

Question

Well first of all when I read the bible compare all the details which I have, I find out that there is more good than there is bad. But, non-believers or athiests likes to magnify those points just becuz they do not believe. Secondly I have noticed that the bible had already stated that the earth is round and is suspended in space (Isiah 40:22 & Job 26:7). Scientist did not know this until Isaac Newton pointed this out to them. Before Newton Scientists actually believed there was a number limit to the stars (i.e. Ptomely predicted dogmatically that the stars were actually 1056 exactly) while the stars were innumerable stated in Genesis 15:5. What i your opinion athiests about such things. Im not religious nor do I go to church, BUT I truly believe in G-d becuz im a seeker of truth not a listener to foolishness.

How can you say the greeks and the phonecians believed the earth was round, you dumbazzzezzz they believed is was flat. O my goodness!!!

Genejohn where the heck did you get arch from!!!

Answer 1

The Greeks calculated the circumference of the Earth and in fact knew it was round.

Eratosthenes (276-194 BC) calculated the circumference of the Earth and devised the system of latitude/longitude that we use today. I'm pretty sure that means that he knew the planet was a sphere.

Answer 2

You see, this is what happens when people who know nothing about a subject act like they do. Here are some Greeks who DID NOT believe the earth was flat.

Pythagoras
Pythagoras (b. 570 BC) found harmony in the universe and sought to explain it. He reasoned that Earth and the other planets must be spheres, since the most harmonious geometric form was a circle.
Plato
Plato (427 BC - 347 BC) travelled to southern Italy to study Pythagorean mathematics. When he returned to Athens and established his school, Plato also taught his students that Earth was a sphere. If man could soar high above the clouds, Earth would resemble "a ball made of twelve pieces of leather, variegated, a patchwork of colours."
Aristotle
When a ship is at the horizon its lower part is invisible due to Earth's curvature. This was one of the first arguments favoring a round-earth model.Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) was Plato's prize student and "the mind of the school." Aristotle observed "there are stars seen in Egypt and [...] Cyprus which are not seen in the northerly regions." Since this could only happen on a curved surface, he too believed Earth was a sphere "of no great size, for otherwise the effect of so slight a change of place would not be quickly apparent." (De caelo, 298a2-10)

Aristotle provided physical and observational arguments supporting the idea of a spherical Earth:
Every portion of the earth tends toward the center until by compression and convergence they form a sphere. (De caelo, 297a9-21)
Travelers going south see southern constellations rise higher above the horizon; and
The shadow of Earth on the Moon during a lunar eclipse is round.(De caelo, 297b31-298a10)
The concepts of symmetry, equilibrium and cyclic repetition permeated Aristotle's work. In his Meteorology he divided the world into five climatic zones: Two temperate areas were separated by a torrid zone near the equator, as well as two cold inhospitable regions, "one near our upper or northern pole and the other near the ... southern pole," both impenetrable and girdled with ice (Meteorologica, 362a31-35). Although no humans could survive in the frigid zones, inhabitants in the southern temperate regions could exist.
Eratosthenes
Eratosthenes (276 BC - 194 BC) estimated Earth's circumference around 240 BC. He had heard about a place in Egypt where the Sun was directly overhead at the summer solstice and used geometry to come up with a circumference of 250,000 stades. This estimate astonishes some modern writers, as it is within 2% of the modern value of the equatorial circumference, 40,075 kilometres. However, the length of a 'stade' is not precisely known; Eratosthenes' figure falls short if we do not use a fairly generous estimate for this length.

Answer 3

You are very, very wrong about when science figured out that the Earth was round. A Greek mathmetician named Eratosthenes not only figured out that it was round, but he calculated how far around it was and was pretty close to right. And he did this around 200 BC.

The reason this information was put down for so long had much more to do with the fact that the Bible taken as a whole reads that the world is not round. That is why the Church had such issues with what science really had to say about it, and since most of the scientists were on their payroll, it was allowed to drop. Others were afraid of the persecution like Galileo got.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes

***EDIT**** Please follow the above link and see for your self. You are insulting our intelligence for telling you the truth when you say you are looking for the truth. You can Google the name too.

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40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

******A circle is a disc, not a ball the last time I checked.

Answer 4

Issac Newton's work involved planetary motion, not the shape of the earth. He was the first to prove the the Earth revolved around the Sun, not the Sun around the Earth. He was later made to renounce this in front of the Pope. If you are truly a seeker of truth, put away that Bible and pick up a Science textbook.

Answer 5

Where does Isaiah 40:22 or Job 26:7 say that the Earth is round? An arch is not a sphere my friend. You are sadly mistaken.

Answer 6

If you believe in a god you are not a seeker of truth, you have simply stopped seeking. Science and Religion are opposites. Science is interested in what is truly happening and trying to understand it. It constantly grows. Religion teaches that all knowledge is already known and that we shouldn't question anything except those that question. Religion attempts to make everything fit their single theory. No growth except by force...losing members. Science is alive and growing. Religion is stagnant and dying. Science will always correct itself. Religion will always claim it is never wrong and doesn't need correction. There is no room for progressive thinking in Religion, only adherence to old established rules.

Answer 7

The greeks also calculated the earth was round based on the pralax of the setting sun.

The bible also says that people can live in whales, plants and animals can talk, and the earth was created in six days.

Doesn't sound to credible to me.

Answer 8

Eh... Isaac Newton discovered the earth was round? People have known that for a lot longer, it was the catholic church which tried to stamp this horrible belief out. They put Copernicus or Galileo, I can't remember which one, on house arrest for life because they proved this was true.

Answer 9

Well, it seems to me that in order to find the truth, one must wade through a great deal of foolishness, and often the truth looks like foolishness.

Most people have made up their minds already, and so their search for "truth" frequently ends up being a search for things that shore up their a priori assumptions.

Answer 10

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