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In the well-established visualization of ancient Hebrew cosmology, based on the Genesis account of creation in the Torah, the earth is an oblate spheroid.
So why does Wikipedia erroneously – and frankly, sneeringly, state that “The ancient Israelites envisaged the universe as a flat disc-shaped Earth floating on water.”?
Again, in the same article, Wikipedia states that “The cosmology of the ancient Near East (including Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia / Iran, the Levant / Syria, Anatolia / Turkey, and the Arabian Peninsula…included a flat earth, deliberately misleading the reader away from the obvious presentation as an oblate spheroid, which is a flattened earth.

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To correct these distortions, Tokyo-based architect and artist Hajime Narukawa created the AuthaGraph map using a complex process that essentially amounts to taking the globe and flattening it out.
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The politics of this – firstly- rectangular map really comes into play in the map’s configuration failure to place Antarctica in its central place in the ocean’s circulation.
This may be the most accurate map so far, but still deceptive.
Deception #1 – Hiding Antarctic’s Key Position On Earth
Continue reading “47) Geological Evidence For The Shape Of The Earth”
You probably don’t realize it, but virtually every world map you’ve ever seen is wrong.



