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#11
RE: Explanation needed
April 30, 2014 at 3:55 pm
Well quite obviously it fails on the "releasing the seas" front.
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RE: Explanation needed
April 30, 2014 at 4:03 pm
Okay then it is pretty much subject to one's interpretation like the belief preached in the qu'ran itself that the earth is flat and it is quite true that arguing with them might be a waste of time. Thank you though!
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RE: Explanation needed
April 30, 2014 at 4:03 pm
The idea is God created it. So yeah

BTW different translations
Sahih International
He released the two seas, meeting [side by side];
Muhsin Khan
He has let loosed the two seas (the salt water and the sweet) meeting together.
Pickthall
He hath loosed the two seas. They meet.
Yusuf Ali
He has let free the two bodies of flowing water, meeting together:
Shakir
He has made the two seas to flow freely (so that) they meet together:
Dr. Ghali
He merged the two seas (that) meet together;
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RE: Explanation needed
April 30, 2014 at 4:03 pm
(April 30, 2014 at 3:16 pm)Mounkie Wrote: I have heard about merging oceans in the Gulf of Alaska.

This is the first I've heard of this. What's it mean? Tiger
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RE: Explanation needed
April 30, 2014 at 4:04 pm
(April 30, 2014 at 4:03 pm)Mounkie Wrote: Okay then it is pretty much subject to one's interpretation like the belief preached in the qu'ran itself that the earth is flat and it is quite true that arguing with them might be a waste of time. Thank you though!

I am quite interested where in the Quran it says earth is flat?
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RE: Explanation needed
April 30, 2014 at 4:05 pm
(April 30, 2014 at 3:24 pm)LastPoet Wrote: I don't really read that, the wording is too vague as any religious text hence they can interpret that any way they can.

Hey! Don't you be talking down about highly interpretable texts! THAT'S THE WHOLE PREMISE BEHIND WHAT I'M DRAWING! Angry You... you wanna go, mate?!
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RE: Explanation needed
April 30, 2014 at 4:37 pm
I'm willing to bet this actually happens all over the world. I haven't looked it up yet, but I don't think the Alaska instance is anything special...
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RE: Explanation needed
April 30, 2014 at 4:58 pm (This post was last modified: April 30, 2014 at 5:01 pm by letsnot.)
(April 30, 2014 at 4:04 pm)lordofgemini Wrote: I am quite interested where in the Quran it says earth is flat?

Quran 15:19
"And the earth we have spread out (like a carpet); set thereon mountains firm and immovable; and produced therein all kinds of things due in balance."

I'm an ex Muslim who learned the Quran in arabic. Now I know the people you're arguing with might say the Quran says this in 79:30
"He made the earth egg-shaped."

They might say that Allah made the earth look flat to us when it's really egg-shaped. The counterargument to that would obviously be that the earth is neither flat nor egg-shaped, since it's a sphere.

Edit: 15:19 also points out that the Earth is immovable.
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RE: Explanation needed
April 30, 2014 at 5:00 pm (This post was last modified: April 30, 2014 at 6:43 pm by Jackalope.)
(April 30, 2014 at 4:58 pm)letsnot Wrote: the earth is neither flat nor egg-shaped, since it's a sphere.

It approximates an oblate spheroid to be precise.
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RE: Explanation needed
April 30, 2014 at 5:05 pm
(April 30, 2014 at 5:00 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:
(April 30, 2014 at 4:58 pm)letsnot Wrote: the earth is neither flat nor egg-shaped, since it's a sphere.

It's approximates an oblate spheroid to be precise.

You'd be an oblate spheroid too if you had been rotating around your central axis for the last 4.5 billion years.
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