The part about the dinosaurs being left off the Ark was pretty sad.

Poor dinosaurs, God forsook them.

To say it was written by those who said the Sun orbited the Earth. I don't believe the flat Earth contingent was universal.

[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]It is constantly talking about god drawing the circle of the earth on the waters, parting the waters and putting firmament of heaven in the air, setting the foundations of the earth and the pillars holding it up, god shaking people off the earth by grabbing earth by it's edges and the like.[/font]

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Flat_Earth
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/febible.htm

The sun is stopped in its journey across the sky.

When Jesus is in the wilderness hanging out with god's old gambling buddy Satan, they go to a "very high mountain" where ALL the kingdoms of the earth can be seen. Can't be done on a sphere.

But you have people using a book as a moral compass that authorizes slavery.

By the one-man MENSA, Eratosthenes - mathematician, geographer, scientist, poet, music theorist, etc. etc. Also Chief Librarian at the Great Library of Alexandria, Egypt.

While living in Alexandria, he not only proved the earth was round, he calculated its circumference with only minor errors. Those errors were caused by some assumptions he had to make, lacking the instruments we have today. He also calculated the axial tilt of the Earth and may have calculated the distance to the Sun.

Speaking of assumptions - Columbus studied Eratosthenes' calculations before he started on his 1492 voyage. For his own unknown reasons, Columbus arbitrarily decided the Earth was a lot smaller than Eratosthenes' had figured. If Columbus had used the original numbers, he would have known he wasn't landing in India.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes

these guys hadn't even arrived at the notion that leeches would remove the bad humours from an ill person and revive them to full health quite yet...so there was a bit of room for scientific advancement all around.

it's turtles all the way down.