Is 'faith' really a 'great cop-out'?

[allan175]

So what you are saying is that even though the Bible said that the world was spherical 1000 years before science did, and that the Bible - Jehovah God's word - was far more ahead of science on many scientific issues we are without reason until science does catch up with it because you have just dismissed it because you can't explain what God is?

I think you are getting your dating mixed up, the ancient Greeks already knew the Earth was spherical, it was rediscovered by scientists later (apparently during the Middle Ages it was "decided" to be flat).