What does the Bible say about the shape of the Earth, flat or round?
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Proverbs 8:26-27 & Isaiah 40:22 indicate the earth is a flat circle with the heavens above like a tent.  (Note: circle DOES NOT mean sphere...the hebrews had their own word for that).\n\nRevelations also refers to the "four corners" of the earth.\n\nLike pretty much every other ancient culture, the Hebrews thought the earth was flat, and incorporated that belief into their bible.  It doesn't make them dumb, just normal for that time.
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Of course it's flat!;) The Earth stands on the three elephants, and elephants stand on three whales, which lie on a giant turtle. Everybody knows that, don't belive provocative scientific researches and space shots))
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The earth is APPROXIMATELY round due to gravitational forces.
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Have you stopped beating your wife yet? The way you pose the question is not sincere -- you've already interspersed conjecture. There ARE 4 corners to the earth when you look at the REAL earth from space. They are not sharp 90% angles, but nevertheless, the earth is not perfectly spherical. Check out DrDino.com and watch 28 hours of creation facts. There are far more holes in any other explanation for earth's beginning, just check them out. There were no clouds prior to the flood, it was a canopy of water. Similar, but not the same, Saturn has an ice halo around it. Earth had a complete canopy above it which regulated it temperature perfectly. Much thicker and integral than the ozone layer today. Upon God's judgment, God caused this canopy to colapse, forever altering the tropical paradise type atmosphere which allowed all manner of life to flourish, even at the poles. Animals with fresh produce still undigested have been found at the poles, frozen. Why? So God could be glorified thousands of years later when man would examine such evidence. Chances are God used a huge deep-space frozen comet or asteroid to knock the earth slightly out of a true orbit around the sun, the collision resulting in the collapse of the canopy AND cause the earth to tilt. If it were frozen nitrogen, it would quickly freeze even the largest of animals in the area the debris hit the earth. Keep in mind, God gives answers to the humble and the contrite in spirit, not to the proud.
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If the Sun revolved around the Earth "like the bible says"... the laws of physics would not apply and wind would be the least of our worries... hence why the bible is wrong in most all respects and should not be used as a scientific basis for anything...\n\nWind is also not created by Earth's revolution around the Sun. Wind is the movement of air from high pressure areas to low pressure areas in the atmosphere. These low and high pressure fronts are created by Earth's rotation as well as a host of other factors that have to do with higher concentrations of plant and animal life that both absorb and give off elements of the atmosphere. The Sun heating the atmosphere also plays a critical role in the creation of these fronts.
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Because the earth is round, and if you made your flat map a oval(circle), the oceans would connect and become one!
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Good question! I had the same question as a child! I'm one for research, and never take an answer unless I can verify it to be true (to the extent I can!)\n\nFinding the True Sense of Biblical Passages\n\nGalileo believed the Bible to be true. When his scientific discoveries contradicted the prevailing interpretation of certain Bible verses, he reasoned that theologians were missing the true sense of the passages. After all, “two truths can never contradict one another,” he wrote.4 He suggested that the precise terms of science do not contradict the everyday words of the Bible. But theologians would not let themselves be persuaded. They insisted that all Biblical statements about the earth are to be taken literally. As a result, not only did they reject Galileo’s discoveries but they also missed the true sense of such Scriptural expressions.\n\nReally, common sense should tell us that when the Bible refers to “the four corners of the earth,” it does not mean that the Bible writers understood the earth to be literally square. (Revelation 7:1) The Bible is written in the language of ordinary people, often using vivid figures of speech. So when it speaks of the earth as having “four corners,” a durable “foundation,” “pedestals,” and a “cornerstone,” the Bible is not offering a scientific description of the earth; obviously it is speaking metaphorically, as we often do in daily speech.—Isaiah 51:13; Job 38:6.\n\nIn his book Galileo Galilei, biographer L. Geymonat noted: “Narrow-minded theologians who wanted to limit science on the basis of biblical reasoning would do nothing but cast discredit upon the Bible itself.”5 That they did. Actually, it was the theologians’ interpretation of the Bible—not the Bible itself—that put unreasonable constraints on science.\n\nSimilarly, religious fundamentalists today distort the Bible when they insist that the earth was created in six 24-hour days. (Genesis 1:3-31) Such a view agrees neither with science nor with the Bible. In the Bible, as in everyday speech, the word “day” is a flexible term, expressing units of time of varying lengths. At Genesis 2:4, all six creative days are referred to as one all-embracing “day.” The Hebrew word translated “day” in the Bible can simply mean “a long time.”6 So, there is no Biblical reason to insist that the days of creation were 24 hours each. By teaching otherwise, fundamentalists misrepresent the Bible.—See also 2 Peter 3:8.\n\nThroughout history, theologians have often distorted the Bible. \n\nMisrepresented by Religion\n\nThe actions of those who say they follow the Bible often besmear the reputation of the book they claim to revere. So-called Christians have shed one another’s blood in the name of God. Yet, the Bible admonishes followers of Christ to “love one another.”—John 13:34, 35; Matthew 26:52.\n\nSome clergymen fleece their flocks, wheedling hard-earned money from them—a far cry from the Scriptural instruction: “You received free, give free.”—Matthew 10:8; 1 Peter 5:2, 3.\n\nClearly, the Bible cannot be judged according to the words and actions of those who simply quote it or claim to live by it. An open-minded person may therefore want to discover for himself what the Bible is all about and why it is such a remarkable book.
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The earth is round. There are some physical proofs below, assuming you don't trust the pictures of the Earth taken from the various space programs.
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First of all the world is not round it is an oblique sphereoid (basically a double ended pear shape.)\n\nThe force of gravity generated by the molten core of the planet acts in all directions equally at any one point in the planet.  This attracted the material from space that formed earth following the Big Bang.  This would form a spherical object.\n\nThe rotation of the planet complicates thia as the equator is rotating faster than parts of the Earth that are further away from the equator, the poles rotate the slowest.  This disparity causes greater centripidal forces to be experienced at the equator than at the poles so the earth bulges out at the centre.
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The law you are referring to is the law of inertia, which is directly related to the laws of gravity.  The heat from the sun and it's gravitational pull are what "make the earth go round"
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Planets form from the same dust cloud that forms a star.\n\nPlanets are round because rock is not strong enough to hold its shape under its own weight.  \n\nIntelligent design is a variety of the pseudoscience of creationism, which was created by Christian fundamentalists.\n\nThe Christian doctrine of creation, as understood by mainstream Christians, teaches that God created and sustains the universe. It does not specify whether the original creation was accomplished by divine creation (creation ex nihlo), the Big Bang, or by another means.\n\nFundamentalists believe that the Bible is inerrantly and infallibly true. They fear that if any aspect of the Bible is not "literally true" (that it doesn't mean what they interpret it to mean), then the salvation promised by Jesus was a lie.\n\nThis extreme belief, coupled with general knowledge of science, has led fundamentalists to create a set of beliefs to rationalize their interpretation of the Bible with their knowledge of science. That set of pseudoscientific beliefs has evolved from creationism to scientific creationism, to intelligent design.\n\nBy far, the large majority of Christians believe in the spiritual truths revealed in the Bible, including Jesus' promise of salvation, even though they believe that the Bible contains factual errors, such as referring to the "four corners" of the earth.  \n\nThus, by a wide margin, most Christians believe in the doctrine of creation, but do not believe in the pseudoscience of creationism, whatever name it goes by.
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The earth is round because matter attracts other matter, and when they get close they compact together to form spherical objects.\n\nPeople created computers because they kept asking why.\n\nEinstein created an atom bomb because he kept asking why.\n\npeople believe in god because they couldn't figure out why any other way.\n\nThere is music becuase people created it.\n\nPeople have brain because our genetic makeup conducts brain building and reconstruction for our entire lives.\n\nHope that answered your questions
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The Earth is round for the same reason that things don't fall off it.  Gravity is a force in the universe that attracts all forms of matter equally, this means that pieces of matter will eventually move together and form clumps, if this is happening from every direction then the most likely shape it will form is a sphere.\n\nThis gravitational attraction is pretty small.  However, the Earth is pretty big, so the combined effect of all that gravity is just enough to keep your feet firmly planted on the surface :)\n\nThere are a few other related effects that come into play, such as centrifugal force, which keeps everything spinning and moving.
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What have I found in holey book - oops, holy books?  Ammunition to tear holes in idiotic religious arguments.\n\nThe bile - oops, bible - says Pi is 3, it says the Earth is flat, and it says the sun goes around the Earth.  (If the Earth is flat, going around means we'd see the sun 24 hours per day....)  \n\n\n"Properly read, the bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived."\n- Isaac Asimov \n\n\n.
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i am round\nlike earth
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It is not just round or oval. It is elliptical. One side is close to the sun and one side is closer to the Oort Cloud, or Kuiper Belt, or maybe the heliosphere, the end of the sun's influence to the galaxy.
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The earth's rotation.