Re: Earth is Round
Meherealone, not just Aristotle, even before him some people proved that the earth was not flat. But it was not a common belief still and chruch in particular did not find it amusing. The first person who proved that the earth was round, used deck of the sailing ship as an example. When a ship approaches the shore, its deck is the first thing that becomes visible to the person standing on shore. As long as it is just theory, common people do not believe it. If you remember, Columbus set on the sail to prove that if earth is round, he will be able to reach from the other side. It was year 1492, and people still were not sure, including the British Kingdom.
Salam brother Robert,
Interesting line above that even Aristotle mentioned about some factors, I agree with you completely. Let me analyze around 8 points mentioned in the Quran and supposedly most of these theories were propounded much earlier to the revelation of the Quran. Well let me just list this down for your purpose
1) The pillars of Iram (Not to forget the earliers muslim commentators even recently until 1934 translation of Quran by Abdullaah yousuf ali, guessed what was this)
2) The unseen barrier between sweet and salt water (The word is unseen)
3) The working bee is a female bee (not the male accordingly Aristotle guessed it wrong here).
4) The water cycle mentioned in the Quran (in the 7th century i forgot the name one of a non-muslim scholar propounded this theory of water cycle but was absolutely wrong).
5) The different stages of an embryo especially the verse with three dark stages and within those are three sub stages.
Now in all the above 5 points mentioned Mohammed pbuh, his predictions/saying all came right. Why is if we consider the concept of theory of probability when the chances for teh Prophet were so low still clinched 100 percent resulth but unfortunately others failed.
I have only mentioned 5 points above but they are lots more than that, if theory of probability is assumed for each one of them its a herculean task for Prophet to fulfill.
Let me analyse further in the Quran, its mentioned (assuming Prophet had challenged the entire manking and Quran to be words of PRophet just assuming for argument sake) challenge those kuffar out there to prove the Quran wrong, it was an open challenge just imagine i write a thesis sitting in some desert for 40 years and I come out blazing with this new propounded theories (taken into account the various subjects Prophet covered) and put my foot down and challenge the entire mankind to beat my thesis.
Robert, you have done a good job but unfortunately you missed out beofer going to any anti-islamic website please do visit Islamic websites for answers.
I know for sure you are a Muslim, but lets go further now.
Regards,