Im not a Christian, but i have a strong interest in the study of this religion along with Islam and Judaism. The basic premise of all three of these religions is that the Earth and its inhabitants (man and animal) were created in seven days. Any religious person who bothers to understand their faith knows that this doesnt mean 7, 24 hour periods. It is a metaphor for evolution. Christians that try to deny evolution dont do their faith any favours. Faith (at least these three religions) and evolution work perfectly hand in hand, its just that many christians, muslims and jews fail to make the effort to understand this.

Don´t you watch political dabates ??? (Or comedys based on them) I was really ROTFL when those four old white guys raised their hand and gave a no to evolution. I do know smart people who belife in intelligent design but they never say man was but here the way he is.

Yes, most places believed the world was round as they had entire maps of the earth well before anyone thought. Hell there is a map of Antartica as to what it actually looks like under ice that's been available for 700+ years. It was only confirmed within the last 20-30 years that the map is in fact the real deal and it actually was drawn extremely accurate. However there were religious sects which did the writing of history and as such they wrote whatever the heck they wanted and thus our history has a lot of falsehoods written about it. Remember, at the time... the only people who knew how to write were religious people and well to do families.

The world is flat was pushed by certain religious groups at the time but was widely known to be false by many different people and people's living throughout the world.

You guys do know that some clever Egyptian mathematician actually calculated the diameter of the earth before Jesus and long before the Greeks got in on the act. You can perform the measurements yourself in fact.

All you need is two good friends that live a hundred miles away from you. One to the North a hundred miles and one directly south a hundred miles. Then at true noon on a given day you and your friends place a yardstick in the ground and measure the shadow. Then comparing the distances of the shadows cast you can work out the diameter of the planet. Rather rudimentary, and you can do it with a elementary school level of mathematics. There is no complex equations required.

Do you really think that lady can do elementary school level math?

Wasn't america discovered in an attempt to prove the world was round?

yeah the Ancient Greeks knew that the world was round.

99% of religious people are fine, its just the 1% that try so hard to discredit science with their 'God did it' crap. Without religion the world would be a much more peaceful place, and we would be far more technologically advanced. Think of all the scientist in history who have been either killed or jailed for life by the church (Galileo for example).

No.  America was not discovered by Columbus.  He landed on an island and this was 100s of years after Europeans 1st came to North America and 1000s of years after Asians came to North America.  There are some that also think Africans came to North America before Columbus did.

People did not think the world was flat in Columbus' time.  See what was already said on this thread for more info, "and Columbus' great radical idea was actually the completely erronous belief that the world's diameter was about a third of it's actual size"

Wow. She actually would have to go look up to see if the world is flat or not. So stupid.

As a quick intro into the religious discussion, religion isn't stupid, people are stupid. The writers of the various religious books we have were some of the smartest people to have ever lived. They formulated ways to control people to mostly have better societies. The unfortunate thing is you will always get fanatics who take things too literal and do things in the name of religion that is actually against the primary focus of the book.