The myth of the Flat Earth is the modern misconception that the prevailing cosmological view during the Middle Ages saw the Earth as flat, instead of spherical.[1]

This idea seems to have been widespread during the first half of the 20th century, so that the Members of the Historical Association in 1945 stated that:

"The idea that educated men at the time of Columbus believed that the earth was flat, and that this belief was one of the obstacles to be overcome by Columbus before he could get his project sanctioned, remains one of the hardiest errors in teaching." [2]

During the early Middle Ages, virtually all scholars maintained the spherical viewpoint first expressed by the Ancient Greeks. By the 14th century, belief in a flat earth among the educated was essentially dead.

However, among Medieval artists, depictions of a flat earth remained common.[citation needed] The exterior of the famous triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch is a Renaissance example in which a disc-shaped earth is shown floating inside a transparent sphere.[3]

According to Stephen Jay Gould, "there never was a period of 'flat earth darkness' among scholars (regardless of how the public at large may have conceptualized our planet both then and now). Greek knowledge of sphericity never faded, and all major medieval scholars accepted the earth's roundness as an established fact of cosmology."[4]

Historians of science David Lindberg and Ronald Numbers point out that "there was scarcely a Christian scholar of the Middle Ages who did not acknowledge [Earth's] sphericity and even know its approximate circumference".[5]

Historian Jeffrey Burton Russell says the flat earth error flourished most between 1870 and 1920, and had to do with the ideological setting created by struggles over evolution.[6] Russell claims "with extraordinary [sic] few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat," and credits histories by John William Draper, Andrew Dickson White, and Washington Irving for popularizing the flat-earth myth.[7]

What are you doing now, defending the current status quo that the Big Bang is fact?

who has ever maintained that the big bang is fact?

she lives in a fantasy world... never have i ever posted anything even close to saying i believed in the big bang... and she knows this

I beg your pardon.

I do not live in a fantasy world.

You seemed to be defending the Big Bang theory as apposed to the Multiverse (String theory.)

I am well aware that there are no proven facts to prove either theory.

Using one's imagination to postulate something is not "living in a fantasy world."

Well I guess that's your opinion. You are entitled to it.

I did not put any words in your mouth either.

I beg your pardon.

I do not live in a fantasy world.

You seemed to be defending the Big Bang theory as apposed to the Multiverse (String theory.)

I am well aware that there are no proven facts to prove either theory.

Using one's imagination to postulate something is not "living in a fantasy world."

If you haven't yet, read this...and the many other

links on the site...:




http://www.reasons.org/temporality-beyond-time-what-creation-reveals

jeannie, it was you who brought up the status quo thinking that the big bang is face. look at your first statement in this very quote. i simply asked you to validate your statement by asking for examples of who in the status quo of which you speak has claimed the big bang to be fact. nobody's saying you believe anything to be fact but i don't see any theoretical physicist, of which i think the "status quo" is made up of, believes the big bang to be fact. either you can or you cannot name a few names in this "status quo" that accept any theory as fact.

i suppose it's how you define the status quo. as regards the big bang the status quo to you seems to mean "many people". that would put the big bang on par with creation as many people are christian, a religious dogma that cannot be tested. to me status quo as regards the big bang are "many theoretical physicists" who have tested the theory.

Perhaps we are a figment of our own imaginations, and trapped into theories due to our own self-importance.

Big bang lets see according to religion that (a) god created the earth sun etc but yet there is no proof that a god god created anything or it self in that matter so religion is nothing more than a book that tells storys.

theory's of the big bang that explains the early development of the Universe.

According to the Big Bang theory, the Universe was once in an extremely hot and dense state which expanded rapidly. This rapid expansion caused the young Universe to cool and resulted in its present continuously expanding state. According to the most recent measurements and observations, this original state existed approximately 13.7 billion years ago,

Evidence for the Theory,


First of all, we are reasonably certain that the universe had a beginning.

Second, galaxies appear to be moving away from us at speeds proportional to their distance.


My personal fav (Big Bang Theory - What About (A) God?)

discussion of the Big Bang theory would be incomplete without asking the question, what about (A) God? This is because cosmogony (the study of the origin of the universe) is an area where science and theology meet.

Creation was a supernatural event. That is, it took place outside of the natural realm. This fact begs the question: is there anything else which exists outside of the natural realm? Specifically, is there a master Architect out there? We know that this universe had a beginning. Was (A) God the "First Cause"?Question today is Does (A) God Exist? Is there any proof? Is there a heaven and a hell or was it created in the human mind? And then acted out to make others believe in it think about it and study it you be amazed.

Many people believe the Big Bang is fact.