@Ghost-of-a-Duke
The Bible speaks of
"the paths of the sea".
Who knew about such paths of the sea.
The Bible speaks of the birds following paths as they migrate.
I don't know how much it was known that birds follow paths on earth as they fly.
The Bible spoke of the heavens being stretched out as a tent.
This I think could be an indication of an ever expanding universe - stretching out
more and more. If so who knew about that?
Jesus speaks of a rapture event in which some are working in the day while others are sleeping at night. That indicates an understanding of part of the world being in day and the other part of it being in night - a spherical planet.
The Bible speaks of the people in Jesus' time knowing how to read the sky and
know what the weather would be like. I think without modern meteorology
probably some of these skills have been lost to people.
The book of
Job speaks of the characteristics of certain domesticated animals. A lot of this knowledge is familiar more with zoologists and biologist then with common people.
The Bible speaks of God hanging the earth on nothing. Today this makes sense to the modern man because we know the globe is suspended in space.
I have heard also that Joshua's long day says both the sun stood still and the moon was indicative of a heliocentric earth.
So I would say your concept of scientific naivete of the Scriptures is probably pre-mature and smugly exaggerated.
In comparison, the Quran of Islam said shooting stars were missiles shot by allah at evil spirits. In comparison, the Quran taught that there was a water pool at the remote parts part of the earth earth where the sun literally rose out of.