[Quranic Reflection]: moon absorbed by the sun in the Quran: far future.

[Apollo]

Winter does have an understanding of a scientific fact - and it's his understanding of that scientific fact that he seeks to employ in order to fill the void in magic books narrative.  

Its not about a god using it's god magic to move some discs in the sky, as the authors had imagined and as the audience would have expected.  Just the completely natural death of a star.  That lets magic book continue to be magic, without waxing on about all of that embarrassing magic.

Devil (or god in this case) is in the details.  While there are various points of logical failures in the debate about god itself, Islam further has notions that add to it exponantially.  For example, the whole religion itself hinges on a very narrow narrative that Mo supposedly spoke to an angel in a cave.  That's it. That's the whole premise of Islam on which it further builds the quranic and hadith and everything else.

This narrative in itself is never really questions.  Kinda like virgin birth (or some other stupid shit-fact) in Christianity.  It's just taken on it face value and never really questioned the very possibility of it.

What is an angel? What is he made of? The travel mechanism. I mean, if someone knows some science, at the very least they will have some respect towards gravity, E = mc^2, theories  of specially and general relativity and how existence and flight of an angel can be explained within the parameters of Newtonian/Einsteinian reality.  So this claim of having spoken (and don't get me started on linguistic ability of a flying alien with vocal cords etc.) to an angel becomes a laughable fantasy totally fits worldview of a 7th century bedouin but hard to swallow for someone who actually have some basic scientific understanding of the world.