RE: How Muslims believed earth was spherical long before anybody mentions it.
March 19, 2015 at 6:15 pm
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2015 at 6:37 pm by Tonus.)
(March 10, 2015 at 2:52 am)AtlasS2 Wrote: First, I will show you the Quranic verses that says that loud & clear :So right after telling us that the verses are loud and clear, your first comment is to point out that it's translated wrong. Couldn't any of these ancient holy texts simply stated that god formed the Earth into a sphere that spun on its axis and orbited the Sun which was at the center of the solar system? In, like, plain language that anyone could understand? Why is it always words that translate into "round" or "circle"? Couldn't they have explained the basics of gravity and given humanity a head start on making progress in understanding the universe?
( 5 ) He created the heavens and earth in truth. He shapes the night over the day in a round-shape, and shapes the day over the night in a round shape, and has subjected the sun and the moon, each running [its course] for a specified term. Unquestionably, He is the Exalted in Might, the Perpetual Forgiver. Page 458
And maybe he could've told them to treat their women better while he was at it.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
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