The Bible on Science
What scripture says about the shape of the earth, the sky above it, and the age of the world.
5 articles
Cosmology in the Text
- The FirmamentGenesis describes a solid dome separating waters above from waters below, matching other ancient Near Eastern cosmologies.
- Flat EarthBiblical descriptions of the earth's foundations, its ends, and the sun's movement reflect a flat-earth cosmology.
- GeocentrismPassages describing a fixed earth were treated as astronomy for centuries, and the response to Galileo shows how they were read.