First, let me say that I agree that there is no conflict between Science and the Bible, but not because there is any good science in the Bible, but because the purpose of the Bible is not to teach us science but to teach us about relationships; God's relationship with Man, Man's relationship with God, Man's relationship with his fellow Man and Man's relationship with the world we live in.
There are parts of the Bible that like
Just So Stories try to explain some of the reality of the world we live in, but unfortunately their explanations are almost uniformly wrong. That does not mean they are not plausible, often they are plausible, they are just wrong.
One example I often quote here is the "Water Above, the Waters Below, and the Dome of the Sky that separates them."
If you look at it from the perspective of someone living 4000 or 5000 years ago, their solution was plausible. It rained, so there must be a body of water in the sky. To keep the water up there, some barrier was needed, some solid lid that kept the water in place. So the sky must be some solid dome that holds back the water.
But it didn't rain all the time or even in all areas at once, so there had to be some means of opening doors or windows in that dome to let some water fall through, then closing them to stop the water flow.
The same can be said of the Water Below. They knew that if you dug a hole, sometimes it would fill with water. There had to be some body of water below the ground too, and like the Waters Above, only when you opened a hole (dug a well) would the water escape.
The description you quote is not accurate scientifically. It may record an observation, just as the Waters Above, Dome of the Sky and Waters Below recorded an observation, it might even have been plausible, but the explanation is wrong.
The people, like way to many Christian Pastors, that try to peddle the Bible as Scientifically accurate do a disservice to Science, to Theology and particularly to Christianity. By making unfounded claims, ones that if their student actually does any studying will be shown to be patently false, they set up a situation that often leads to the individual losing their faith.
You also need to get a few things straight. The assertion that 2000 years ago people thought the sun was 1 meter in diameter is simply a lie. There is no other way to describe it.
By 2000 years ago people had a pretty good idea of many things, that the earth was a sphere, what its diameter was, and from that, they could even get pretty good ideas of the relative diameters of both the Moon and Sun. Almost two hundred and fifty years before Jesus was born, the diameter of the Earth had not only been measured but several additional experiments had been carried out to refine those measurements.
Once the diameter of the Earth was known, it was pretty obvious that both the sun and the moon were considerably larger than 1 meter (or any small object. It was clear that the Earth was slightly larger than the Moon and that the sun was bigger than the Moon and so must be further away).
I will leave it to you to figure out how those two things must be true.
But Science and the Bible are not at odds. They serve two different purposes. Science is, for the theist, the study of "How GOD did it." Every day we learn more and more about How this Universe works. We can learn none of that from the Bible.
The Bible though is still a great resource to teach us about those relationships.
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