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What is the shape of Earth's orbit around the Sun?
Of course it isn't a perfect circle, it's elliptical. Everything I've read in the Bible seems to suggest that people thought the stars were something that was attached to some sort of dome and the author of Genesis clearly had no understanding of how our solar system operates. That's why that particular verse supposedly from the Quran surprised me but it sounds like you're saying it's not quite accurate? I don't believe any ancient religions had accurate knowledge about astronomy. The people who lived in those days didn't have a clue that the earth was round and revolved around the sun and I guess you couldn't really expect them to. If any ancient religious text really gave an accurate description of the universe than it would have influenced the general population to believe that way but we know from history that even suggesting that the earth revolved around the sun could get you put in prison or worse and that was only a few hundred years ago.
Of course it isn't a perfect circle, it's elliptical. Everything I've read in the Bible seems to suggest that people thought the stars were something that was attached to some sort of dome and the author of Genesis clearly had no understanding of how our solar system operates. That's why that particular verse supposedly from the Quran surprised me but it sounds like you're saying it's not quite accurate? I don't believe any ancient religions had accurate knowledge about astronomy. The people who lived in those days didn't have a clue that the earth was round and revolved around the sun and I guess you couldn't really expect them to. If any ancient religious text really gave an accurate description of the universe than it would have influenced the general population to believe that way but we know from history that even suggesting that the earth revolved around the sun could get you put in prison or worse and that was only a few hundred years ago.
I'm saying that it's close, but not accurate.
People that believed/alluded to a spherical Earth before the Qur'an was written: Pythagoras, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, Eratosthenes (estimated the circumference), Seleucus of Seleucia, Claudius Ptolemy, Aryabhata
People that believed/allude to heliocentrism before the Qur'an was written:
Yajnavalkya, Aristarchus of Samos, Seleucus of Seleucia, Varahamihira, Brahmagupta
Therefor, the lowest point on earth is the Mariana Trench. You are limiting your results to the land on earth. The OP didn't make any restrictions. The OP's claim that the Dead Sea is "the lowest point on earth" is false. It's fine if you want to say the Dead Sea is the lowest point on land on earth. Just realize that you aren't talking about the same thing as me. I'm talking about the OP's claim, you are talking about something completely different.
The only way you can say that the Dead Sea is lower than the Mariana Trench is if you say that the Mariana Trench is not on Earth.
well , may be i'm wrong , may be i lied , may be i am biased to the quran
so , make your researches anout the lowst point in the earth , and show me your results
Kudos to BONA FIDE's clearly stated quotes (whether they are factual interpretations remains to be seen...) for at least showing us something that at least is more plausible and advanced than the Christian OT / NT dogmatists are parading out as evidence in other threads. Doesn't that make THAT BOOK more likely and hence more believable to those who need religion? But do I detect a mass swing in allegencies? NBL (not bl__dy likely!)
The "Lowest Point on Earth' argument proves, once again, my atheist pals, that no point is too small to be belabored endlessly in defense of oddball evidence.... Or that vague statements or translations from old books (or Nostradamus for that matter) can be interpreted in, shall we generously say, a number of different ways. Whatever shores up the "Argument of the Day".
Ain't it fask-in-atin"? But I gotta git back to work. Unless THAT's also a delusion.
Of course it isn't a perfect circle, it's elliptical. Everything I've read in the Bible seems to suggest that people thought the stars were something that was attached to some sort of dome and the author of Genesis clearly had no understanding of how our solar system operates. That's why that particular verse supposedly from the Quran surprised me but it sounds like you're saying it's not quite accurate? I don't believe any ancient religions had accurate knowledge about astronomy. The people who lived in those days didn't have a clue that the earth was round and revolved around the sun and I guess you couldn't really expect them to. If any ancient religious text really gave an accurate description of the universe than it would have influenced the general population to believe that way but we know from history that even suggesting that the earth revolved around the sun could get you put in prison or worse and that was only a few hundred years ago.
there are many strange facts mentioned in quran , and modern science proofed it now
read this verse and tell me if you have any conclusions ? You see the mountains and reckon them to be solid; but they go past like clouds-the handiwork of Allah Who gives to everything its solidity. He is aware of what you do. (Qur'an, 27:88)
another fact
As the strong belief of we Muslims is that when the sun will rise from west rather than east, that time will be the biggest identity of The Day
Of Judgment.
this phenomena of the opposite movement called "Retrograde Motion" research about it by yourself becuase it happened with mars allready , i think
i don't think that any ancient relegion mentioned it either
And the strange thing most of our Shariah scholars mentioned that the
rise of the sun from the west occurs only once - on that day, the sun
will rise from the west, then again from the east, and continues until
Allah wishes and this is similar to what is happening to Mars, it
stops, then it changes its course of direction for a short period of
time then returns to way once it was.
Abu Hurayra(R.A.) narrated ... that the Messenger of Allah SWT said :" The day of the hour will not come until the sun rises from the west, if it rises and the people saw it they will all believe, when a time where nothing will be accepted anymore of believe the truth" [Abu Bukhari,Muslim]
i think this kind of knowldge can't to be one of these miracles which have not anything to do with science , Agnostic Soldier
Strange how the quran has so much knowledge, yet the middle east is a intellectual vacuum.
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The Big bang and Expansion of the Universe
"Haven't the disbelievers considered that the Heavens and the Earth were a joined entity and We separated them…”(Qur'an 21:30)
"And the Heaven we created with great strength and indeed We are its expander.”(51:47)
Many religions believe the sky and the earth where once one, and where pushed apart by someone (expanding) 51:47 talks about how muslim empires will continue to expand. These days, I see some people translating it into explosion, which funny enough, the big bang was not an explosion.
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The Atmosphere/Ozone Layer
“And we made the sky a protective ceiling…” (21:32)
Where does it say anything about the atmosphere? It states that the sky is a solid roof.
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Orbit of the Sun, Moon, and all other Celestial bodies
“…the sun and the moon; all heavenly bodies are swimming in an orbit (circular motion).”(21:33)
The greeks knew about this 1000 years before the quran was born, hey god must have talk too them too.
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The Lowest Point on Earth
"The Byzantines have been defeated in the lowest of the Earth (Adnal-Ard)…”(30:2-3)
Are you serious?
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The Uniqueness of the Fingerprint
“Does man think that We will not assemble his bones? Yes. We are able to proportion him to his fingertips.”(75:3-4)
Wow, I guess no one ever look at their own hand and compared it to someone else
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Iron as a Metalic Element Sent Down From Above
"...And We sent down iron in which there lies a great force and which has many uses for mankind..."(57:25) http://www.55a.net/firas/english/
This was well known in most cultures, the iron in meteorites was value.
Why didn't you mention embryology, and the time that the sun set in a muddy pool?
This stuff is even more absurd than the claims of advanced scientific knowledge in the Bible.
Did we see the presentation of a future 'miracle' (which hasn't happened and wouldn't be 'scientific' even if it did) of the sun going west to east and that being somehow proved by 'retrograde motion'? That is absolutely nothing to do with the sun appearing to rise in the East. It is to do with the earth's orbit relating to the orbits of other planets, not the sun. It is in no way evidence of a prediction of anything and no evidence of anything in the Quran other than the whackiness of those who roll up here pasting chunks of text.
Nor is the reference to fingertips proof of some advanced knowledge that fingerprints were all different. In fact that is hardly a miracle in any case. i believe the chinese were using Fingerprint impressions as individual identifiers in the Sung dynasty.
But keep posting this stuff and we'll keep tearing it to pieces in the trust that anyone looking at it will decide that Islam is best left to those with parts of the brain that logic cannot reach.
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At least it's slightly more plausible...
