Not quite. Science has attempted(and was relatively successful) over the centuries in keeping the truth of the planet a secret. While the Church contended the earth was round, the scientists refused to accept it. Their own personal observations got ahead at what had been biblically mentioned far far before their time. This is the bottom line: Sceince changes its mind so often because it's wrong so often.
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From Wikipedia:By the time of Pliny the Elder in the 1st century, however, the Earth's spherical shape was generally acknowledged among the learned in the western world. Ptolemy derived his maps from a curved globe and developed the system of latitude, longitude, and climes. His writings remained the basis of European astronomy throughout the Middle Ages, although Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (ca. 3rd to 7th centuries) saw occasional arguments in favor of a flat Earth.
The modern misconception that people of the Middle Ages believed that the Earth was flat first entered the popular imagination in the nineteenth century, thanks largely to the publication of Washington Irving's fantasy The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1828. "
In other words, you're wrong.
Christianity doesn't change its mind so often, but that doesn't mean what they believe is true.
That the church said that the earth was round?, where in the Bible does it express that the earth is round or not?, I think that the final demonstration was with satellite photography. And well, for changing its mind so easily, you type very happily in the comp. In which alternative bizarro universe you live?
Jacob:I think the church was one of the staunchest proponents of the flat-earth theory in history.
Riiiiiiiiiight... and Christianity never changes its mind, which is why we have... what... about 400 sects that argue over things like whether bread really turns into the muscle tissue of a 2000 year old Jewish carpenter or not, whether entry into heaven is pre-ordained or a result of free will, etc.
Actually, the Church believed the Earth was a sphere since the Medieval ages. That much is true. It's just that they didn't believe in the scientific Heliocentric model. However, I suspect such knowledge would be lost on a peon like you.
You did actually READ the bible, rather than a few choice verses right? In the bible it says the earth is a flat disk, with a hard "dome" over it which contains the sun, moon, and stars. When did scientists contest the earth was round again? I missed that one in school.
> \"Sceince changes its mind <
Sceince ? And its spelling, too, apparently.
"Science" didn't really exist until the last century or two. Scientists change their minds WHEN THEY LEARN MORE, unlike the bible, which keeps all its inaccuracies and fantasies without correcting any of them.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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