Good!
Because I'm quite likely to prove the Earth to be round with my own equipment.
The reason I asked was to gauge how married you were to the idea that the bible teaches the Earth to be flat (which it doesn't at all - by the way).
If the passages of scripture taught what you implied, your "No" answer would be the wrong answer. The point being, of course, that they do not teach what you imply and your unwillingness to hinge your faith on the idea that they do is proof that you know that they don't.
In fact, your use a scripture is akin to the way the Calvinists use scripture. It's irrational and ought to be offensive to any mind searching for the truth. Your own website is proof that you know better.
Christianity is not dependent on cosmology. I have said many times that this subject does not affect salvation.
It affects the salvation of the lost who hear mindless Christian suggest the the Earth is flat and reject the whole thing based on their stupidity.
Further, Christianity absolutely is cosmology.
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth.
It goes on from there but that first sentence is a foundational one and it is undoubtedly a cosmological in nature, wouldn't you agree?
That does not mean that "the World" (and those who turn away from the Christianity they once believed in) will not be deceived into rejecting Christianity and that the basis of that rejection will be the evolution of both cosmos and man. Heliocentrism is the basis for the evolution of both. Christians at some point have to reject what heliocentrism has become regardless of original intent.
This is stupid, David. Not only is it a false premise but it would an irrelevant one anyway. I don't care who figured it out or what their motives where for doing the science. Facts are facts. The Earth either orbits the Sun or it doesn't. You don't reject facts of relativity based on who figured them out or why.
Most Christians today want to accept both Christ and Copernicus as if both are Biblical and infallible.
False premise. Copernicus is not anti-biblical. They two are not in conflict, as your "no" answer implies.
But at what point do we reject modernity's evolving heliocentrism cosmologies of spacetime relativity, multi galaxies, infinite multiverses, quantum physics, life on other planets?
This sort of thinking is what got the inquisition started, David. You reject ideas/theories as false at the point at which they diverge from reality. That's what science is supposed to be about. You don't reject them based on their philosophical origins. Their origins may be a good reason to investigate their veracity but not reason enough to reject them.
Flat earth has a strong case
No, it doesn't David. The idea of a flat earth has, in fact, been proven wrong several times on this thread alone not to mention over several centuries of history.
and many, like me, are giving it serious consideration.
You're well past the consideration stage. You've bought this stupidity hook line and sinker.
If you think you can debunk it in a way the common man can test and validate then please do. I will be ready this summer to test and see for myself.
--Dave
It took me less than ten minutes to figure out the method. It's simple. If I was comfortable leaving a multi thousand dollar telescope unattended for anything length of time, I'd have done a long time ago.
Clete