The Rumor Of A Flat Earth
As the reader is reading, they know that the Earth is round. In recent times, the rumor of a flat Earth has come up. These rumors are supposedly supported by science and the Bible. They think that there is no question that the Earth is flat. In fact, there is even a Flat Earth Convention every year to talk about the flat Earth. Although many people think the world is flat, science shows that the Earth is round.
Some people may have thought that people in the Middle Ages thought the world was flat. Unfortunately, every educated person in the Middle Ages thought the Earth was round. When Columbus set sail in 1492, he foretold he’d arrive in the Indies. Columbus was certain the world was round, and he sailed west instead of east to arrive in the …show more content…
Irving wrote a book about the life of Christopher Columbus and he was the one to start the ludicrous rumor of the flat earth. English author Samuel Rowbotham penned an article called, "Zetetic Astronomy" in 1849, negotiating for a flat Earth. Rowbotham printed results of many tests that tested the bends of water over a large drainage ravine, trailed by another article named, “Inconsistency of Modern Astronomy and its Opposition to the Scripture.” He also produced lessons that claimed to show that the effects of vessels vanishing below the horizon could be clarified by the laws of perspective in relative to the human …show more content…
The first class believe that Bible itself said that the earth is flat because in Isaiah 11:12, it says, “He will raise a signal for the nations and will assemble the banished of Israel and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.” People take this to mean that, since a sphere has no corners, it must be flat. “The four corners of the Earth” is just a figure of speech and is just meant to be the whole world in general. The second class finds evidence that the earth is flat and sticks to it. They’ve decided a long while back that the Bible describes a flat earth and are now dedicated to the flat earth, even if scientists prove there is a globe instead of a
Some people may have thought that people in the Middle Ages thought the world was flat. Unfortunately, every educated person in the Middle Ages thought the Earth was round. When Columbus set sail in 1492, he foretold he’d arrive in the Indies. Columbus was certain the world was round, and he sailed west instead of east to arrive in the …show more content…
Irving wrote a book about the life of Christopher Columbus and he was the one to start the ludicrous rumor of the flat earth. English author Samuel Rowbotham penned an article called, "Zetetic Astronomy" in 1849, negotiating for a flat Earth. Rowbotham printed results of many tests that tested the bends of water over a large drainage ravine, trailed by another article named, “Inconsistency of Modern Astronomy and its Opposition to the Scripture.” He also produced lessons that claimed to show that the effects of vessels vanishing below the horizon could be clarified by the laws of perspective in relative to the human …show more content…
The first class believe that Bible itself said that the earth is flat because in Isaiah 11:12, it says, “He will raise a signal for the nations and will assemble the banished of Israel and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.” People take this to mean that, since a sphere has no corners, it must be flat. “The four corners of the Earth” is just a figure of speech and is just meant to be the whole world in general. The second class finds evidence that the earth is flat and sticks to it. They’ve decided a long while back that the Bible describes a flat earth and are now dedicated to the flat earth, even if scientists prove there is a globe instead of a