Taking Back Astronomy | Answers in Genesis | Jason Lisle, PhD | Modified 2022
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2024 1:22 pm
EVIDENCE SET (17 of 45) FOR GOD
Many astronomy textbooks credit Pythagoras (c. 570–500 B.C.) with being the first person to assert that the earth is round. However, Isaiah, who mentions the circle of the earth, is generally acknowledged to have been written in the 700s B.C.
In Job, it states that God “hangs the earth on nothing.” This verse expresses (in a poetic way) the fact that the earth is unsupported by any other object—something quite unnatural for ancient writers to imagine.
The Bible teaches that God “stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.” This would suggest that the universe has actually increased in size since its creation.
In Genesis, God said He would multiply Abraham’s descendants “as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is on the sea shore.”. The astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (A.D. 150) cataloged 1,022 stars in his work The Almagest.