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and that to be a Bible believing Christian one must adopt the flat-Earth view. Both of these
conclusions are false. Evidence reveals that the majority of early Christians believed in a spherical
Earth. This should not be surprising since the church was birthed during the height of the Roman
Empire. Greek was not only the common language of the Empire, but Greek teachings dominated
the academic and scientific realms.

It was not the U.S. or British government that originated the spherical Earth model. Neither was it
NASA, or some group of humanist, anti-Christian scientists. The spherical Earth view predated
Christianity by a great margin and has from ancient times been demonstrated and defended from
empirical observations. It is not a Satanic deception. I have not seen much evidence of Christian flat-
Earthers researching the history of astronomical models. If they had they would discover that it was
the Lutheran Christian Johannes Kepler who is credited with defining the laws of planetary motion.
Kepler incorporated religious arguments and reasoning into his published works, motivated by the
conviction that God had created the world according to an intelligible plan that could be understood
through man’s divinely given faculties of reason. Kepler’s writings on astronomy contain passages
describing how space and the heavenly bodies represent the Trinity, not unlike the principle behind
the parables I set forth at the start of this addendum.

I would encourage any Christian who is troubled by the flat-Earth theories being promulgated to
study Kepler’s laws of planetary motion. I would also challenge any flat-Earther to explain the
motion of Mars without resorting to a heliocentric model of the Solar System and Kepler’s three laws
of planetary motion.

https://youtu.be/qDHnWptz5Jo

https://youtu.be/qd3dIGJqRDU

https://youtu.be/KbXVpdlmYZo

The flat-Earth theory reemerged in modern times when in 1838 the Englishman Samuel Rowbotham
conducted what is referred to as the Bedford Level Experiment. This experiment consisted of taking
observations in a level canal that stretched for a distance of 6 miles. Rowbotham argued, if the Earth
is curved, and calculations are performed correctly, at a distance of 6 miles the small boat he used
with a mast height of 5 feet, should have been 11 feet below the horizon and invisible to him.
Rowbotham demonstrated that he could still see the boat plainly at a distance of 6 miles, which he
interpreted to be evidence that the Earth is flat, rather than spherical.

Illustration of Bedford Level Experiment from Rowbotham’s Book

What Rowbotham did not consider is that the results he experienced are readily explained by the
refraction of light. The atmosphere of the Earth is most dense at the surface. It tends to settle into
stratified layers, of different densities and temperatures. These stratified layers of the atmosphere