![]() ![]() ![]() A major motivating factor behind propagating this myth has been to bolster the Darwinian worldview and to further the goal of displacing the biblical worldview. The story was invented to promote the claim that Christians have widely resisted scientific advancement due to doctrinal constraints. “The idea that Christians once commonly believed in a flat earth for theological reasons is a myth. The Darwinist Plot to Discredit ChristiansIn more modern times, Darwinists have tried to lump Christians and flat-earthers together as a means to discredit creationism but as creationist Jerry Bergman points out: It was not until the Roman culture prevailed on our sub-continent that flat-earth ideas prevailed for a while. The Greeks, Europe’s first scientists, had known the world was a sphere and had even worked out its circumference reasonably accurately. The only two Christian writers known to have advocated a flat earth were a 4th-century heretic, Lucius Lactantius, and an obscure 6th-century ex-sailor and Egyptian Monk, Cosmas Indicopleustes. Continued from Part 1 From the Earliest Times… From the very beginning of the Messianic era, Christian theologians have accepted, almost without exception, the fact that the earth is a sphere barring a spell in the Middle Ages. ![]()
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