Psalm 104:5: “Thou didst fix the earth on its foundation so that it never can be shaken.” Psalm 96:10: “He has fixed the earth firm, immovable. Psalm 93:1: “Thou hast fixed the earth immovable and firm. Hanson, who spoke to Schadewald at the 1984 National Bible-Science Conference in Cleveland, but these are “a few obvious texts” that Schadewald chose to cite:ġ Chronicles 16:30: “He has fixed the earth firm, immovable.” It's a logical starting point, since he notes, “The flat-earth view is geocentricity with further restrictions.” There are hundreds of such passages, according to geocentrist James N. But he starts with the much more direct, explicit Bible statements about an immobile, geocentric earth. “The Biblical cosmology is never explicitly stated, so it must be pieced together from scattered passages,” Schadewald explains. Its first, 16-page pamphlet edition, in 1849, predated Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" by a decade. Easily the most influential work is " Zetetic Astronomy, Earth Not a Glob e," by Samuel Birley Rowbotham. “When I first became interested in the flat-earthers in the early 1970s, I was surprised to learn that flat-earthism in the English-speaking world is and always has been entirely based upon the Bible,” Schadewald begins his piece. But he was as much an enthusiastic student of fringe or "alternative" science as a source of endless fascination as he was a critic of swallowing it whole. Schadewald was a former board member and president of the National Center for Science Education, a leader in the fight against creationism and other forms of pseudo-science being pushed into schools. The late Robert Schadewald made this point conclusively in “ The Flat-Earth Bible,” an article posted on the Web back in 1995. And there is a wide range of scriptural passages to prove it. And yet, the Bible itself reflects a radically different view of the cosmos, one shared by the ancient Egyptians and Babylonians, in which the earth is both stationary and flat. Such was the Ptolemaic system, which had dominated Western views for more than a millennium. Most pointedly, there are at least two passages in which a single point is visible to the whole world ( Daniel 4:10-11 and Revelation 1:7), and one ( Matthew 4:8) in which the whole world can be seen from a single point - an obvious impossibility unless the earth is flat.Īlthough the Catholic Church had forced Galileo to recant his work questioning the immobile earth in 1632 - and only pardoned him in 1992 - they did so in part because they were certain the earth was a globe: a globe around which the sun, moon and all other heavenly bodies revolved. You see, according to the Bible, the earth is both stationary and flat. It's been a rough few weeks.īut really, if you're a biblical literalist, it's been a rough few centuries, or millennia, actually. Then, adding insult to injury, for those paying close attention, long-awaited evidence of the Big Bang arrived. First there was "Cosmos" - on Fox, no less! - giving short shrift to everything they hold dear. The creationist crowd is in a tithy lately.
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