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Well said. Your entire post explains the subject very well, but the above shows the problem, IMO, with the globe-earthers wanting to keep science separate from religion, as if God isn't the author and creator of everything in the natural world.

I think you're right. They alienate the physical from the spiritual, then water down the spiritual (all religions are equal) then accentuate the physical, to arrive at pure humanism and eventually, devil worship. As secretly as possible of course.  Eliminating creation's spiritual connection to God creates another, different, alternate, 'genesis' of a Godless world. Reminds me that God told us Satan was a liar from the beginning. I'll never see Genesis the same way again.     

To say that something is implied is also not being silent on the matter.

The word "imply" means to suggest something without actually explicitly saying it, in other words suggesting while being silent.  For someone to say that something may be implied is to acknowledge that there is silence on the matter.

Some of the greatest dogmas of the Faith are only implied in Scripture.  Tradition fills in the gaps.

But there is no Tradition that the earth is flat or that Scripture teaches it to be so. Catholics throughout history, including Doctors of the Church, believed, as a matter of science, that the earth is a globe.  A globe in the sense that was taught by Aristotle and Ptolemy, not a flat earth surrounded by a globe-shaped firmament.  And these Catholics could only accept this scientific model because they believed that it was not in conflict with Scripture.  

How could St. Thomas have taught that Aristotle's understanding that the earth is a globe is correct, if there was an existing Catholic tradition that Scripture taught it to be flat?   And it was not just St. Thomas, but every educated Catholic, at least from time of St. Bede on, who believed that they were free to accept the view of pagan science on this.

Flat earth is in no way comparable to the "greatest dogmas of the Faith" although admittedly some flat earthers seem to treat it as if it were.

But there is no Tradition that the earth is flat or that Scripture teaches it to be so. Catholics throughout history, including Doctors of the Church, believed, as a matter of science, that the earth is a globe. 

There's not been a consensus either way.

A globe in the sense that was taught by Aristotle and Ptolemy, not a flat earth surrounded by a globe-shaped firmament.

It's a debated topic.

And these Catholics could only accept this scientific model because they believed that it was not in conflict with Scripture.

The Church allows both theories.  Until She teaches clearly, you can't say flat-earth is any more wrong than globe earth.

How could St. Thomas have taught that Aristotle's understanding that the earth is a globe is correct, if there was an existing Catholic tradition that Scripture taught it to be flat?   And it was not just St. Thomas, but every educated Catholic, at least from time of St. Bede on, who believed that they were free to accept the view of pagan science on this.

St Thomas was *slightly* wrong on the Immaculate Conception (which in the 1200s was not yet defined), but this doctrine was no less implied.  Many others were *majorly* wrong about the Immaculate Conception, which caused the Church to investigate and determine that the Immaculate Conception WAS implied in Scripture and also explicitly taught in Apostolic Tradition.  Thus, now, it is an explicit doctrine; formerly it was only implicit.