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Transcript: The Earth Hangs Upon Nothing
Presenter: During the time when the Bible was written,
[A timeline]
many people had mistaken ideas about the shape of the earth.
[Men of ancient cultures write theories]
A theory written after the Bible was completed was that the universe emerged from a cosmic egg
[The egg splits]
and that the earth was supported by various creatures.
[Animals stack inside]
In contrast, about the year 1473 B.C.E., Moses wrote that the earth is suspended ‘upon nothing.’
[Job 26:7]
And around the year 732 B.C.E., the prophet Isaiah wrote that the earth is a circle, or sphere.
[Isaiah 40:22]
These Bible writers contradicted ideas that were popular at the time.
[The round earth spins]
It was some 200 years after Isaiah’s day that the Greek philosopher Pythagoras may have proposed that the earth is a sphere.
[6th Century]
And more than 3,000 years passed from Moses’ writings until scientists such as Isaac Newton realized that the earth seemed to hang upon nothing.
[1687 C.E. Newton catches a fallen apple.]
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