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Originally posted by Leonis:
It was common knowledge that the earth was round at the time (and had been since biblical times)[/QB]
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Since About the sixth century B.C., some astronomical observations indicated the earth to be a sphere and by the time of the Middle Ages, the scholarly opinion was for the spherical earth.
The Bible seems to say that the earth is basically a sphere in shape; that there are pillars which undergird the world and which one could conclude to be the crystalline rock corresponding to what we commonly call the mantle; that there are an unspecified number of foundations which range in size all the way from the foundations of the hills and mountains to the core of the earth and to the very foundation which is (supposedly) the Jesus.