(July 28, 2022 at 1:58 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(July 28, 2022 at 1:09 pm)WinterHold Wrote: Our life is composed of three main sections:
1-past
2-present
3-future
The past can be discovered by the tracks it left on our present.
Though, the future is always locked, we can only discover it by waiting for it to happen and get turned into a present, then a past.
Scientific discoveries proved though that all 3 sections actually exist on the same plain; the most famous theory for that discovery was for Albert Einstein, he once wrote:
In other words: time is only an illusion according to Einstein.
But if time was an illusion, then how do we age? everything has a timeline; it's impossible to live without thinking of time.
From here I concluded that it's not a problem of the existence of time; but a problem of "deciding" what is the universal clock of the universe.
Humans agreed to make their time connected to the sunrise and sunset, alternatively: our time is relative to the existence of the sun in our sky.
If the sun ceases to exist, you'll use another star and make another similar time system. But what if all stars went dark?
In the Quran, God says:
Time exists as long as there is a medium emitting light, like a star. Or there is something else that is light in itself, like God in Islam -who is the light of of heaven and earth-.
The real time of the universe is the time of God, since he is the light of heaven and earth.
(Bold mine)
The moon is not in any way ‘a light’. Since the Quran can get such a basic fact of science wrong, maybe you should stop trying to establish its scientific credentials.
Boru
The Arabic word used to describe the sun in the verse is "سراج" = Lantern, and the moon a "light" = "نور", which makes the meaning stand clear: the sun "emits light like a lantern", while the moon is just "a light".
We know today that the moon is just a "light" because it reflects what comes from the lantern; i.e the sun.
It's hard to stop now because the previous 9 years in this forum + watching and reading tons of material didn't break the Quran.
