[Serious] A Literal Bible. Answering questions

[Green Diogenes]

Literally.....none of that is true.  The idea that the earth was flat did not originate in the 19th century, or in the US..and I find it hard to believe that you need anything more than your own understanding of chronological time and geography to figure that out.  Young earth creationism, likewise, not an american invention..for the same and most obvious of reasons.

I never made that claim, I did however make the claim that the Flat Earth movement, in the modern incarnation, originated in the 19th century in the USA, and emerged out of a culture which had known the Earth was a sphere for about 2200 years.

I did make the claim that Young Earth Creationism emerged in the 19th century USA, but I should say I mean the mainstream Christian branch of Young Earth Creationism which is predominant in the western world today. I don't mean the Islamic YEC which is more globally relevant, and much older. I don't mean previous forms of YEC invented throughout history. The mainstream scientific view before that I also exclude, as while it predicted a younger earth than current models, it did not adhere to the 7000 year old Earth of the Young Earth Creationism movement.