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

[Pat Mustard]

Because I'm not trying to force a bizarre interpretation to keep the text saying something true.

It's not a bizarre interpretation, it's the main interpretation, dude.

It's still bizzare.

Oh and it's also a post-hoc explanation as this explanation only gained currency after we began to understand celestial mechanics and that the final phase of the sun's existence would likely be rapid and massive expansion followed by collapse