You just don't like it because it completely destroys your arguments.
I break it up because you make so many different assumptions and claims and conclusions all in one sentence or paragraph that it is extremely difficult to address any of it.
In other words, you obfuscate so that it makes it seem like what you're saying is rational.
The fact that I can pick your replies apart and tear each piece to shreds just shows how weak your position truly is.
Which is saying absolutely nothing at all.
The point is that things that are massive enough will have an atmosphere, from the moon (and even smaller) to the stars, regardless if they're spinning or if they're sphere shaped or space station shaped.
Which is a non-sequitur.
Good grief, Dave, when are you going to stop relying on logical fallacies to support your position.
This is not only false, it's also question begging.
False, and repeating your position, no matter how many times you do so, doesn't make it any more true.
God didn't. Your perceptions are just broken.
Or rather, your paranoid, and the symptoms are that you can't accept reality.
Saying it doesn't make it so, Dave.
Sorry, but I have to laugh a little.
You're using Wikipedia, a site known to be, if not outright Godless, one that resists truth when it comes to the Bible.
* UC History Prof. Debunks Myth of the Flat Earth: Dr. Jeffrey Russell, Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has also taught history and religious studies at Berkeley, Harvard, and Notre Dame. His book, Inventing the Flat Earth, documents that in the 19th century a French archaeologist and an American essayist invented and spread the falsehood that educated people in the Middle Ages believed that the earth was flat. RSR notes that the anti-Christians spreading this fabrication allegedly include some of Darwin's promoters like David White, and that the targets of this smear included Christian scholars. Prejudice and myth die hard, and a small army of professional historians have been unable to correct this evolutionist libel against Christians. Toward that end, however, see Dr. Russell's brief article, The Myth of the Flat Earth. Russell there mentions the widespread false belief that in 1491 Christopher Columbus faced inquisitors and theologians who held that the Earth was flat, which mini-myth has been widely debunked and identified as a pure invention of the author Washington Irving.
* Isaiah: God "sits above the circle of the earth": From above, and from every direction, a solid sphere can only be viewed as a circle. Dominic Stratham's article, Isaiah 40:22 the Shape of the Earth, provides many indicators that khûg, the ancient Hebrew word used 2,700 years ago, typically translated into English as "circle", also means sphere. In modern Hebrew both khûg and kaddar mean sphere, as do similar words in other languages, whether possibly coincidental or borrowed or cognate, as with Arabic kura (which word appears in this verse in the most popular Arabic Bible which was translated in 1865). An old German word kugel, the Polish word kula, and the Serbian/Croatian word kugla all mean sphere apparently from the Proto-Indo-European root gug? Also, the pre-modern era renderings of this word khûg as an orb include Bible translations in the 1500s, as sphaera. |
From
https://kgov.com/flat
It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat.
A round earth appears at least as early as the sixth century BC with Pythagoras, who was followed by Aristotle, Euclid, and Aristarchus, among others in observing that the earth was a sphere. Although there were a few dissenters--Leukippos and Demokritos for example--by the time of Eratosthenes (3 c. BC), followed by Crates(2 c. BC), Strabo (3 c. BC), and Ptolemy (first c. AD), the sphericity of the earth was accepted by all educated Greeks and Romans. |
From "The Myth of the Flat Earth" link in the above quote from kgov.com.
And let's not forget Job...
(same kgov link)
... has nothing at all to do with measuring the earth's circumference, Dave.
In other words, you're making a non-sequitur. Your argument DOES NOT FOLLOW.
Because you missed it:
Eratosthenes made the first accurate MEASUREMENT of the earth's circumference.
So you're arguing that it is impossible to be correct in one's cosmology and incorrect in their philosophy?
Because that's the argument you're making about the Greeks.
Philosophy and physics are two completely unrelated topics.
The nature of God has nothing to do with the shape of the earth, Dave.
And NO, one does not have to discard reason, to understand a round earth.
You've only done so because you're intellectually lazy at best, and intellectually dishonest at worst.
