Flat Earth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The flat Earth model is a view that the Earth's shape is a flat plane. This view contrasts with a view recorded around the 4th century BC by natural philosophers of Classical Greece that the Earth i...
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Aristotle argued for a spherical earth, for these reasons: ... If your infernal thief of a husband is brought home some day on a hurdle, with every bone in his head smashed to a pulp, you will know the reason. Do you tell him from me he is a lying infernal thief, and as sure as his name is Wallace he never dies in his bed.
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Despite contrary assertions, the fact of a spherical earth was clearly proclaimed in the Bible by the prophet Isaiah nearly twenty-eight centuries ago ...
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Science question: Why is the earth spherical in shape? Answer Actually the earth isn't exactly spherical, it's very oddly shaped, and has some pretty deep puddles (ocean abysses) and peaks (mountains). ... Answers.com > Wiki Answers > Categories > Science > Why is the earth spherical in shape?
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A number of Muslims believes that the Qur'an talks about the earth as being spherical [actually 'eggshaped'] and not flat as everybody at the time of the revelation of the Qur'an believed. This is seen as another "scientific miracle" confirming the divine origin ... It is doubtful that he had a sound reason for this belief,
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Scott, David W. Terra firma: the earth not a planet, proved from scripture, reason, and fact. London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1901. xvi, 288 p. illus., fold. ... White, Arthur V. The shape of the earth; some proofs for the spherical shape of the earth given in astronomical and geographical text-books examined,
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Date: 10/8/2001 9:05:00 PM From Authorid: 27046 I don't know but I have never heard anyone contest to the fact that the bible said the earth was round.
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the distance any given person might travel was limited by how much he or she could walk, and that is not very much — especially when you don't really have a reason to move that much. And, ... A few decades later, Aristotle defended once more the idea of an spherical Earth, but differently from his predecessors he had...
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First, he noted that Earth’s shadow always took a circular bite out of the moon during a lunar eclipse, which would only be possible with a spherical Earth.
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