Christopher Columbus’ (1451-1506) American voyages did not convince Europe that the earth was round, at least not until Washington Irving’s 1837 book, History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. In fact, Medieval Europe (even Roman Catholics!) widely believed the earth was round long before Columbus. But Irving’s historical novel sowed “flat earth” seeds that Darwinists then harvested in their late nineteenth-century battle with Christians. The Darwinist’s battl