Cute.... Would Ug have understood that that the earth is round ...
I don't know, that's the trouble with pre-history.
The Ancient Greeks knew that the world was round and measured its circumference.
Of course, they thought it was a sphere, but then your passage says "circle", so you can't complain.
and that its suspended?
But it isn't. Reading the passage as "the earth is suspended, and what it's suspended from is nothing",as you seem to, makes a nonsense out of it. Try reading it as "is not suspended from anything."
In which case, again I refer you to the ancient Greeks. Aristotle would have said the same. So would Aristarchus of Samos, who was a heliocentrist to boot.
Everybody knew that what goes up must come down
Which isn't actually true.
long before Newton. What they didn't understand is why.
And if the Bible contained the formula F = m
1m
2/r
2 then I would be duly impressed --- at the acumen of the Jews.
Newton, after all, did not acquire his theory by miraculous means.
But it takes neither a miracle nor knowledge of Newton's theory, or Einstein's for that matter, to know that the earth is not flat.
Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.