Cosmology “Rational people believe Salisbury Plain to be a plain, and Lake Windermere to be horizontal, but our Astronomers say that this is all a mistake, that we must not trust our eyes, when we see these or other such places, as being horizontal, but that we should believe what they tell us, that Salisbury Plain, Lake Windermere, as also all other plains, lakes, and places upon the Earth, as well as the vast Pacific and all other oceans, are only parts of a great Globe, an
Outside of Genesis, the Hebrew word for day (yom י֥וֹם), when used with a numeric designator, and derivatives of night/day, always means a 24-hour period. God, the Holy Spirit, did not inspire the Bible’s writers to record His narrative in such a way that common folk like us could not understand it.
