What if our world use to be flat? Many, many years ago (about the time of your dad), people use to say that the world was flat. Over the ages it is said that among those people were people that believed that the world was round. As far back as 570 BC the ancient Greek Pythagoras stated that the Earth was spherical. Plato a believer in the Pythagoras hypothesis taught this model of the earth to all his students.  Aristotle (who was a student of Plato), said that  the earth must be round because you can see stars in Egypt that you can’t see in Greece. He also stated that the shadow of the Earth on the moon, during a solar eclipse, is round.  And in 1522 explorer Ferdinand Magellan provided first-hand proof that the world is round by becoming the first recorded person to sail completely around the Earth.

So, there is plenty of pretty convincing evidence to prove that the Earth is most probably round. But for how long has it been round?  I mean I highly doubt it started off as a ball. What would make a flat object to into a ball? Hmmm. Maybe a big bang. I’m not sure that there was a big bang, but many people are convinced that there was one about  13.7 billion years ago. I didn’t even know someone could live that long. Anyway, if you just imagine that the Earth, and all the other planets use to be one massive piece of land.

Now for all my bible peeps out there saying to yourselves, “I don’t believe in no dang big bang!”  Take a look at these verses. (They don’t speak of a big bang, but rather elude to the mass of land I am talking about.)  For everyone else you should pay attention too.

Genesis 1:2-14

2: Now the Earth was formless and empty. Darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. 

(The first element was water?)

3: And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening , and there was morning (the first day).

6: And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water.” So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. God called the expanse “sky.”  And there was evening, and there was morning (the second day).

(We all know our sky is full of gases. So 2nd element is gas?)

9: And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.

(Next is solid ground? That’s a solid.)

14: And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years. And let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the Earth. “ And it was so. God made 2 great lights. The greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day , and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning (the 4th day).

(Seed bearing plants and trees on Earth before light?)

Okay. If you paid attention you will see that we have 2 lights to mark day and night., (Sun  and Moon?), stars, some land, some gas, and some water, with some plants of course. Now, notice that it said dry ground aka “Land.”  Earth. It didn’t say the Earth and all the other planets. What if all that use to be together? One giant mass of land that stretched out beyond universes. And then along comes a big bang to go “BAM!” And blow it to bits, where it all mixed around, and became different planets. What if?  Everyone knows if you take some clay in spin it around in your hand it’s going to turn into a ball.

Non of this of course proves anything. I’m just saying, “What if.”