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The Medieval Flat Earth Myth

History for Atheists

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The Myth of the Earth as a Disk

Iran-Rah claims Saint Augustine described the Earth as a disk suspended in the concavity of the heavens. But no such description can be found anywhere in Augustine's works, says Andrew Keen. In several references he makes to cosmology and geography show that in fact he did not think it was a disk,. Keen: The other reason atheists activists like the myth is because it makes Christianity look stupid.

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