(May 7, 2020 at 5:31 pm)WinterHold Wrote: One interesting verse in the Quran says:
Quote:Sura 91, The Quran:
https://quran.ksu.edu.sa/index.php?l=en#...rans=en_sh
( 1 ) By the sun and its brightness/morn
( 2 ) And [by] the moon when it follows it
( 3 ) And [by] the day when it displays it
( 4 ) And [by] the night when it covers it
( 5 ) And [by] the sky and He who constructed it
( 6 ) And [by] the earth and He who spread it
The sun shines during the day. Deepity. Except when it's cloudy.
Quote:The day does display the sun; defining it as the simple rotation of the earth to the direction facing the sun.
The indication that the sun does indeed become "not visible to us" at night is not explained through mysticism or fantasies -like the one's in Ancient Egyptian stories-, but actually through telling us that nothing makes the sun obvious to us but the "time" of the day.
Science when it's right.
(May 7, 2020 at 6:56 pm)WinterHold Wrote:(May 7, 2020 at 6:39 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: If the night covered the sun, then the sun would stay in the same place and the night would descend over it like...like...some sort of cover-y thing. Not only does that not happen, that doesn't even look like what happens.
Boru
If it doesn't look like that even to an ancient human; then probably you understood the text wrongly.
When the sun is covered by "the night", then we are speaking about an "Analogous language"; which is exactly the case with many verses in the Quran.
A turn of phrase when it's wrong.
Talk about your cherry picking. I think I prefer my cherries picked another way. The Quran is clearly saying that "And by the day when it displays it" means that Allah's flashing you during the day. During the night he "covers it up." "And by the earth and He who spread it" rather speaks for itself in this context.