(June 28, 2020 at 8:55 am)WinterHold Wrote:(June 27, 2020 at 6:42 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: Sorry, you provided no answer there. Let me be precise. Your translation, "And the heaven We constructed with strength, and indeed, We are [its] expander." arguably contains a single word that has anything to do with the expansion of the universe. Everything else is post-hoc conjecture and wishful thinking. If you wish to demonstrate otherwise then you need to show:
- Where does that passage refer to the universe? "Heaven" is not the universe.
- Where does that passage refer to space-time. Completely absent.
You can't do that because you're copy-N-pasting Muslim appaulogetics that you don't even understand.
Without that you might as well claim that Lincoln stole the Gettysburg Address from a hockey game because both contain the word "score".
Heaven is the universe; calling it "space" or "outer space" or "the void" or "the vacuum" means nothing but that the reference is obvious: we're speaking about space here.
No, it isn't. You've simply chosen to misinterpret it that way to suit your own arguments. The Quran refers to no fewer than seven heavens, none of which are the universe.
