Ancient Cosmology

The cosmology of the ancient world was dramatically different from the way that we think of ours. Scholar John Walton writes in The Lost World of Genesis One, “Old world cosmic geography is based on what they could observe from their vantage point,” just as ours depends on our scientific understanding of the world. Because water comes down from the sky and wells up out of the ground, there must be waters above us and below us. That requires a firmament above to keep the water from falling down all of the time and something to keep the dry land in place. Their neighbors saw these…