RE: Earth is a sphere in the Quran: direct mentioning.
December 6, 2017 at 4:58 am
(This post was last modified: December 6, 2017 at 5:01 am by WinterHold.)
(December 6, 2017 at 4:23 am)Alex K Wrote: Would it have killed the author to write "the earth is a sphere" instead of having you scramble for interpretations of vague verses. Where does this quoted text say that the earth is a sphere? It sure sounds like they're saying that it is a *disk*.
But in any case, you do know that Erathosthenes measured the diameter of the earth empirically many hundreds of years before the Quran was written and knew exactly not only that it is a sphere but how big it is. You know that, right? Or do you just not care about reality?
The phrase "decrease it from its borders" is the interesting part. How did the author know that the horizon is due to a curve in the ground (or a decrease in the border); not a spread ground in a disk form or a flat form?
The book was bombarded a lot as being inaccurate, or even giving fantasy tales like "people seeing the sun setting in a muddy lake", the book is more advanced than that.
Spherical earth was no more of a theory or a scientific opinion across the ancient world, it was an argument and a belief that some had; many Greek scholars made it go viral, the God of the Quran is also the God of the Greeks. My point is: if God revealed to Mohammed that earth is a sphere, he revealed the same to other prophets from other civilizations before him.
