Sudan President: CIA, Mossad behind Boko Haram, Islamic State
And this one puts modern creationists, Christian and Muslim, to shame.
Muslim cleric denies heliocentrism.
Reaching across the centuries to Cardinal Bellarmine, he is.
The ancient Biblical view is that the Earth is flat.
But the Fathers may already have rejected that in favor of the Greek view that the Earth is round, widespread by their time, and Bellarmine was enforcing a Church doctrine that the scriptures cannot be interpreted in a manner contradicted by the common consent of the Fathers.
Flat Earth and Round
OT cosmology
Of course, from the quoted parts we see in Spencer it may be this cleric is actually a flat Earther, and not a geocentrist at all.
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