A circle is not a sphere, and what you now argue was "interpreted" at the time (by the Church) not to mean a sphere.
Now, in light of the unavoidable truth that the Earth is round, and a sphere, that it rotates around the Sun, and that religion was absolutely wrong on the subject, religion wants to excuse its earlier missinterpretation of Scripture by pointing to information they ignored in their previous stance.
When evolution is proven beyond question, then religion will stand on the notion of dual Creation (Genesis I and Genesis II as accounts of two separate Creations) in order to save face.
Our only concern has to be that we do not contradict the scripture, for once a person knows God personally, proper humility ensues. Men are naturally clueless because we only know less than 1% of reality!
We've been properly warned.
Col 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.