(April 13, 2012 at 9:14 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(April 13, 2012 at 7:44 pm)Alter2Ego Wrote: How could Isaiah have known that the earth is circular, considering that the writing of the book of Isaiah was completed in 732 B.C.E. and Christopher Columbus did not make his first journey across the Atlantic until 1492 AD/CE or 2,224 years AFTER Isaiah wrote that the earth is a circle?
You are prepared to prove when Isaiah (as well as Job) were written, of course? Bet you a dollar you can't produce any empirical evidence to support a claim that authorship was before.... (see next paragraph)
The ancient Greeks knew the earth was spherical (not circular) at least as early as the 6th century BCE. Europeans were Johnny-come-lately to the spherical earth party.
As for your other questions, let's dismantle one bullshit claim at a time, m'kay?
The book of Isaiah has been dated to 732 B.C.E or the 8th Century B.C.E, which puts it 200 years ahead of the Greeks. And then of course there's the matter of the book of Job which describes the earth as hanging upon nothing--indicating invisible gravity.It wasn't until the 20th century that astronauts were able to confirm what Moses wrote in the book of Job, that the earth indeed appears to be hanging upon nothing when seen from outer space.
