They argue about the mechanism by which this happened, but not the truth of the claim. Indeed, their claim is that all of life came from a common ancestor. Evolutionists recognize this fact of the present too, but they claim things underwent major changes in the unobserved past when no one was present to observe it, and that all of life experienced these major changes. Instead, we observe stasis, that things 'stay' the same, with only minor adaptations to the basic types. To deny it is to deny observation, and no one does.Ĭompare this with macroevolution, the theory that basic plant and animal types have changed into others. Of course creationists and evolutionists agree fully on Earth's shape. While this may make them feel superior it belies a great misunderstanding (or misrepresentation) of creation and of the nature of science itself! Certainly most who do so are merely repeating catchy insults from others, even though there are many who make the claim maliciously and purposively. This may seem unimportant, but evolutionists often belittle creation thinking by comparing it to belief in a flat Earth. But when the issue of Earth's shape is addressed in Scripture, the Hebrew wording implies sphericity (see Isaiah 40:22, etc.). It is flat to our eyes and to our listener's eyes. We talk about 'flat' terrain or a 'flat' ocean even though we know they follow Earth's curvature.

There are, of course, instances of phenomenological language, where the author refers to what the viewer can see, just as we do today when communicating. We actually observe these familiar mechanisms at work in the present.īy the way, the Bible has always taught a spherical Earth. The erosive action of rainfall, glaciers and wind couple with gravity to relocate material from higher elevations to lower ones, rounding the globe. If reduced to the size of a billiard ball, it would be perfectly smooth, and we wouldn't even be able to feel the highest mountains or deepest oceans. Using careful measurements from the ground and observations from space we can be certain it is essentially a sphere, with only minor bulging near the equator. Without a doubt, Earth is round, or nearly so.

Is the earth round, hollow, or flat ??