yazdi
July 16, 2012, 11:23am
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Re: Atheism
Peace Keyboard Stoker
Yes … you know what is brillant though? The Qur’an is better than anything the scientists have come up with regarding the motion of the Sun …
Today we say that the Earth goes around the Sun … Is this true? No it isn’t … The Earth seems to go around the Sun … it is actually caught in gravitational field that significantly starts off at the centre of the galaxy, then to the solar system zooming around that galaxy, then to the centre of mass of the solar system which is typically off centre from the Sun … in fact the Sun itself revolves around the same centre of mass … whilst doing so these bodies spin around their own axes … when viewed from a certain vantage point … the actual motion of the Sun is a wobbling eliptical curve when viewed from the galaxy’s POV …
It is more of a path being taken … levels of superimposed sinusoidal curves … The Qur’an does not make the blunder of describing the motion of the Sun in reference with another object … Rather it states that it “occupies a path” … How simple yet so profoundly accurate - still better than anything the scientists can come up with …
The beauty in all this is - it made total sense to the Arabs of the desert who could only see the Sun move in the sky …
Why is it so that for centuries literal religionist like you read the scriptures and understood the universe to be geocentric. They declared Galileo a devil when he suggested otherwise. Suddenly they changed the translation-meaning of the scriptures when they could not defend their position any longer..
.. and voila.. now you found science in Quran which for centuries people who read the scripture could not find..