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Only 55% of Scientists reportedly believe in Darwinian evolution.

Cite, please.
Gallup Poll. 1997.

Many many years ago most scientists believed the earth was flat

Which scientists, when?
I was going to say Scientists in the middle ages since the majority of folks in the middle ages were reported to have believed that the earth was flat. But, upon further research, it appears that the flat earth theory was something concocted in the 1800s to tag Christians with- something wholly without proof. So I withdraw that statement but keep the point that I was making. Scientists are continually putting forth their views on things only to find out so often that they are totally and completely wrong. Just because a majority of scientists subscribe to something does NOT make it a fact.

(incidentally, the Bible has always claimed the earth was round).
Round, as in a flat disk.

Since there is no proof that Christians believed in a flat earth at any point in time, and since it has become evident that liabelous flat earth tag can't be found towards Christians before 1830, saying that Christians believed the earth was a flat disk is just idiotic and shows extreme prejudice on your part. The Bible says the earth is round. Christians believe the Bible.

These theories range anywhere from the traditional big-bang primordial soup gig to panspermia (which is a position held by DNA co-founder Francis Crick stating that the world shows intelligent design, but OBVIOUSLY we can't admit God could have done all this, so the aliens came here millions and millions of years ago and planted seeds- boy that's science!

Crick wrote one paper discussing the possibility of panspermia. He has not to my knowledge ever stated the world shows intelligent design.
What in the sam-hill do you think panspermia is supposed to be saying? That Crick believes that earth grew out of non-intelligent life forms like ROCKS?????? No, that's just what the big-bang folks believe.

Cite, please.

Gallup Poll. 1997

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/evolutionviews990816.html

Among scientists, only 5 percent hold the literal Bible view, 40 percent believe in theistic evolution and a majority, 55 percent, believe in evolution without help from God.

So 95% believe in evolution; most claiming it is entiirely naturalistic, a smaller number think it happened with some guidance from God, and only 5% adhering to a strictly biblical view.

Since there is no proof that Christians believed in a flat earth at any point in time, and since it has become evident that libelous flat earth tag can't be found towards Christians before 1830, saying that Christians believed the earth was a flat disk is just idiotic and shows extreme prejudice on your part. The Bible says the earth is round. Christians believe the Bible.

As I understand it, and I'm not a Hebrew scholar, but there are several here on FR, the passage in Isaiah that translates to 'the circle of the earth', uses a Hebrew word that means circle or disk. It does not mean sphere. Therefore, to claim the Bible says there is a spherical earth is fallacious.

Some Christians, particularly in the early middle ages, did believe in a flat earth. For example, there is the famous sixth century map of Cosmas Indicopleutes which shows a flat earth with four corners.

Your accusations of prejudice on my part are ad hominem and unjustified.

What in the sam-hill do you think panspermia is supposed to be saying

That life arrived on earth from elsewhere. it just avoids the question of the origin of life. It does not answer it.