Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1885 — The Earth Shaped Like a Pancake. [ARTICLE]

The Earth Shaped Like a Pancake.

The Lord flung the earth, shaped like a pancake, out on the sea of space. How thick this pancake is I do not know, but I believe it is at least 50,000 miles in diameter. There is fire in the pancake somewhere, and maybe Paradise is around there or thereabouts, too, but I am not certain about that. The Bible is right, and modern science is wrong in this matter. I depend for proof of my assertion that the earth on the fact that the surface of standing water is absolutely level. The surveyor’s charts for a section of 100 miles of the Suez canal make positively no allowance for the alleged curves in the earth’s surface. The survey for the first ocean cable from Ireland to Newfoundland, a distance of 1,665 miles, likewise allows not an inch for curvature in the surface of the water. This single fact alone overthrows the entire Newtonian system. I don’t know how far distant the sun is, but I judge about 3,000 miles—certainly not much further. Over the center of the earth is the North Star. There is no such point, but the South is the entire circumference. The earth is fixed, does not revolve nor wabble. The sun, moon and stars revolve around it. The seasons result from .the varying distance from us of the sun in its orbit. When we think we are going around the earth, as if itwere a ball, we are mistaken; we are merely traveling around the surface of the pancake.— Professor Carpenter.