(March 2, 2013 at 12:48 pm)FallentoReason Wrote: Pythagoras in the 6th century B.C.E. was already onto the idea of a spherical Earth.
A spherical earth had been postulated as early as that, and became generally accepted by the 3rd century BCE, and then disseminated by the end of antiquity. The claim that people believed the earth was flat is a popular myth based on the fact that the earth was not shown practically to have been spherical until the beginning of the modern era, in the 1500's I believe.
A spherical earth had been calculated long before the Qu'ran was written.
If you believe it, question it. If you question it, get an answer. If you have an answer, does that answer satisfy reality? Does it satisfy you? Probably not. For no one else will agree with you, not really.