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They didn't beleive the world was flat; they believed in a geocentric model of the universe. That is, with the Earth in the middle and everything else flying around it... which is the way most religions (and most people) saw the universe. It was a mistake, but it wasn't just the Christians who beleived that... anyway, it's not like it's church dogma that science is bad. The Second Vatican council reinforced Thomas Aquinas's idea of faith and reason. That means that faith never has to come into conflict with reason... this is because the Catholic Church doesn't read the Bible like a history book.
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"There's straw in his brains and his clothing is stained with mice and small newts and the perfectly maimed. Don't look under his hood in the place where he stood or you'll find yourself running from the rook in the wood."
-Cinema Strange
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