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Re: Catholic intro video to Flat Earth
« Reply #35 on: July 29, 2017, 11:55:47 AM »
Surveyor and Engineer of thirty years wrote to the Birmingham Weekly Mercury, Feb. 15th, 1890 stating, “I am thoroughly acquainted with the theory and practice of civil engineering. However bigoted some of our professors may be in the theory of surveying according to the prescribed rules, yet it is well known amongst us that such theoretical measurements are INCAPABLE OF ANY PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATION.  All our locomotives are designed to run on what may be regarded as TRUE LEVELS or FLATS.  There are, of course, partial inclines or gradients here and there, but they are always accurately defined and must be carefully traversed.  But anything approaching to eight inches in the mile, increasing as the square of the distance, COULD NOT BE WORKED BY ANY ENGINE THAT WAS EVER YET CONSTRUCTED.  Taking one station with another all over England and Scotland, it may be stated that all the platforms are ON THE SAME RELATIVE LEVEL.  The distance between Eastern and Western coasts of England may be set down as 300 miles.  If the prescribed curvature was indeed as represented, the central stations at Rugby or Warwick ought to be close upon three miles higher than a chord drawn from the two extremities.  If such was the case there is not a driver or stoker within the Kingdom that would be found to take charge of the train.  We can only laugh at those of your readers who seriously give us credit for such venturesome exploits, as running trains round spherical curves. Horizontal curves on levels are dangerous enough, vertical curves would be a thousand times worse, and with our rolling stock constructed as at present physically impossible.”

Re: Catholic intro video to Flat Earth
« Reply #36 on: July 29, 2017, 12:02:58 PM »
If the earth is flat why not just sail to the edge and send us picture?


Re: Catholic intro video to Flat Earth
« Reply #37 on: July 29, 2017, 12:13:04 PM »
Is the any occurrence in Church teaching that declares the Earth is flat?
Again, has the Church ever officially declared the Earth is flat?  While I do not believe the Church has ever declared the Earth is flat, I am interested in any reference to the contrary.

Re: Catholic intro video to Flat Earth
« Reply #38 on: July 29, 2017, 12:38:08 PM »
"the roundness of the Earth, for not without reason is it called 'the orb of the world' on the pages of Holy Scripture and of ordinary literature. It is, in fact, set like a sphere in the middle of the whole universe." -Saint Bede (De temporum ratione, 32).

Re: Catholic intro video to Flat Earth
« Reply #39 on: July 29, 2017, 12:47:31 PM »
Again, has the Church ever officially declared the Earth is flat?  While I do not believe the Church has ever declared the Earth is flat, I am interested in any reference to the contrary.
Scripture, Church Fathers, Pope Alexander VII and a myriad of saints have weighed in on the geocentric/heliocentric question.  Not even one saintly or authoritative Father or Doctor or saint has taught otherwise.  The geocentric system is necessarily a flat earth cosmology.  There is plenty of proof on which side the Catholic Church sits, especially since She officially condemned heliocentrism during the Galileo Affair.  The only people who ever promoted heliocentric round earth throughout the centuries were pagans and their heliocentric model cannot be believed--official Church teaching.  And the kicker is, there is no scientific proof for a round heliocentric earth/cosmology.  All scientific proof shows earth is flat and stationary and that the sun, moon and stars revolve around it under the firmament. The Church doesn't have to officially say "earth is flat" in order for Catholics to know its flat, with a dome, bound to the heavens like a block of stone, set on pillars, with four corners, at the bottom of the universe, like a footstool for God, with a face, never to be moved, as scripture describes.  Just like the people waited until the 19th century to hear the words officially from the Church that Mary was immaculately conceived, they will have to wait for the "official" statement that earth is flat. However, the proof is there for those who want to know. Further, because the damage from pagan cosmology promotes evolution, a Godless creation, false science, relativism, atheism, imprecision and lies, there is no reason to hold such a theory.