Anyone else catch the the scientific implications in Isaiah 40:22? "It is [God] who sits above the circle of the earth..." Apparently, at least God and Isaiah understood that the earth was not flat but round, even though it took a couple millenia for everyone else to figure it out! Upon some brief internet research however I discovered that many skeptics actually accuse the Bible of supporting a flat earth view. There's actually a lot more controversy about the way the Bible presents the earth, sky, etc, than I was aware of. Interesting...
I didn't really spend the time to be able to write up a whole summary of this controversy, but if you are in to this sort of thing, the following article from Tektonics Apologetics Ministries seems to give a pretty thorough and biblically faithful point of view on this discussion:
http://www.tektonics.org/af/earthshape.html#circle
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