Category: Biblical Cosmology

“So is it in this world of ours; from the extreme South we can sail from East to West or from West to East around it, but we cannot sail from North to South or from South to North, for we cannot break through intervening lands, nor pass the impenetrable ramparts of ice and rocks which enclose the great Southern Circumference.” “As regards Longitudes still farther South Parallaxwrites as follows – ‘Having seen that the diameter of the Earth’s surface taking the distance from Auckland in New Zealand, to Sydney, and thence to the Cape of Good Hope, as a datum arc – is 7,440 statute miles; we may inquire how far it is from any of the above places to the great belt of ice which surrounds the Southern oceans. Although large ice islands and icebergs are often met with a few degrees beyond Cape Horn, what may be called the solid, immovable ramparts of ice seem to be as far south as 78 degrees.’” “Upon the principle, as taught by Scripture and common observation, that the world is not a Planet, but consists of vast masses of land stretched out upon level seas, the North being the centre of the system, it is evident that the degrees of longitude will gradually increase in width the whole way from the North centre to the icy boundary of the great Southern Circumference.” — David Wardlaw Scott,“Terra Firma: The Earth Not A Planet, Proved From Scripture, Reason, and Fact” (1901)