The earth is an oval

The priest was discussing the advent wreath today in mass. He said something like this (and I paraphrase)... "The four advent candles represent the 4000 years of history during which mankind was waiting for the messiah. Of course, these days we know that the earth is more than 5000 years old, even if some people don't want to believe it (chuckle)." Pat Robertson probably would have had a noxious gas emission had he heard that.