Creationism in Schools

"Hope this helps to clarify the unlikely use of the word "spheres" in these contexts."
--Thanx, yes it was informitive to me ------------------

"As well before anyone starts quibbling about old testament wording claiming ignorantly as LudvanB did that 'thats what it says' a lesson in exegesis is necessary. 1)The old testament was written in Hebrew thousands of years ago and 2)you have to take into account the audience of the time. When done so one finds that it is proper to translate the Hebrew word as sphere's and that the biblical text predates Ptolemic views. This is another example of strawmen fallacies committed by those committed to their particular world view instead of real inquiry. They didn't examine both sides and the evidence of each before stating conclusions. Very bad scholarship indeed"
--I find many of the arguments, particularely the mention of the 'circle of the earth', as proposed by some, great evidence of a spherical earth. As this circle of the earth would be non-existant if the earth were not spherical.------------------

"Circles are flat."
--Not when seen in this light:------------------

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[This message has been edited by TrueCreation, 03-02-2002]

"Actually,if you stood on a large enough flat disk and looked toward the edge,you would get about the same visual effect...which is probably why they concluded that the earth was a circle"
--The bible does not say the earth was a circle, it says the circle of the earth. Also, the larger your flat disk, the less you would see any indication at all that would have such a horizon, besides your looking at a 2 dementional view as indicated in the picture, you would also see the same thing as latitude from longitude.------------------

--I think those questions are all fine and everything, though I would ask not to ask everyone to go there in every single thread, its a bit arrogant with its abundance.------------------