On the origin of education: Evolution in British schools

[ManusJustus]

Kasz216 said:

ManusJustus said:

Kasz216 said:

The word Firmament means to spread out. 

Your probably one of those people that think people expected Christopher Columbus was going to fall off the "ends of the earth".

No, the educated in the Middle Ages knew that the world was round.  The only people in opposition to the idea was some in the Church and the general population.  Also, the word firmament doesnt mean 'to spread out' in many cases of the Bible since it is an actual place where God puts stars, the sun, the moon, and uses to seperate sea water from the fresh water in the sky.

I'd probably ignore the Bible verses too if it made my argument look bad.

Yes.  It was an actual place... that god spread out and put the stars.  Something that was stretched.  That has nothing to do with being flat.

There is no actual ignoring it so much as you being completly dense about something because you want to be.

Continue to strawman.

I mentioned the firmament to show how wrong the Bible was.  Surely God doesnt think that people will be forced to live in caves to escape stars that are falling to Earth, or that God uses the firmament to seperate the waters (which the Hebrews directly borrowed from Babylonian mythology, namely the Enuma Elish and the Epic of Gilgamesh).

Hopefully God, or any of his followers, are not dense enough to believe that.