The flat earth myth

[renard_ruse]

Those backwards religious fanatic stupid Medieval Christians really weren't:

...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."Historians of science David Lindberg and Ronald Numbers point out that "there was scarcely a Christian scholar of the Middle Ages who did not acknowledge [Earth's] sphericity and even know its approximate circumference".

Historian Jeffrey Burton Russell says the flat earth error flourished most between 1870 and 1920, and had to do with the ideological setting created by struggles over evolution. Russell claims "with extraordinary [sic] few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat," and credits histories by John William Draper, Andrew Dickson White, and Washington Irving for popularizing the flat-earth myth...

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

 

[Frizzle_Fry]

It's right in the Bible man.

Daniel 4:10-11
New International Version (NIV)
10 These are the visions I saw while lying in bed: I looked, and there before me stood a tree in the middle of the land. Its height was enormous. 11 The tree grew large and strong and its top touched the sky; it was visible to the ends of the earth

(can't see the ends of a sphere)

Matthew 4:8
New International Version (NIV)
8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor.

Once again...not possible.

Oh and the earth is the center of the universe too.

1 Chronicles 16:30: “He has fixed the earth firm, immovable.

Psalm 93:1: “Thou hast fixed the earth immovable and firm ...”

Psalm 96:10: “He has fixed the earth firm, immovable ...”

Psalm 104:5: “Thou didst fix the earth on its foundation so that it never can be shaken.”

Isaiah 45:18: “...who made the earth and fashioned it, and himself fixed it fast...”

Alllll bullshit. This is the infallible word of your god!!! who is obviously fucking retarded. I can find more bullshit in the bible....any version you want. Shall I go on?

 

[KingOrfeo]

Maybe not then . . .

 

[Derpman]

derp!

 

[CandiCame]

It's right in the Bible man.

Daniel 4:10-11
New International Version (NIV)
10 These are the visions I saw while lying in bed: I looked, and there before me stood a tree in the middle of the land. Its height was enormous. 11 The tree grew large and strong and its top touched the sky; it was visible to the ends of the earth

(can't see the ends of a sphere)

Matthew 4:8
New International Version (NIV)
8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor.

Once again...not possible.

Oh and the earth is the center of the universe too.

1 Chronicles 16:30: “He has fixed the earth firm, immovable.

Psalm 93:1: “Thou hast fixed the earth immovable and firm ...”

Psalm 96:10: “He has fixed the earth firm, immovable ...”

Psalm 104:5: “Thou didst fix the earth on its foundation so that it never can be shaken.”

Isaiah 45:18: “...who made the earth and fashioned it, and himself fixed it fast...”

Alllll bullshit. This is the infallible word of your god!!! who is obviously fucking retarded. I can find more bullshit in the bible....any version you want. Shall I go on?

I want you to take me to see Book of Mormon so fucking bad. I feel like that would be an awesome experience. We'd get backed off our asses and watch the fuck outta that shit.

 

[Liar]

Matthew 4:8
New International Version (NIV)
8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor.

All the kingdoms of the world were around that mountain. The rest were republics. Yep.