"The Earth is round"
I'm reading from
http://www.miraclesofthequran.com/scientific_15.html
It claims the Koran reveals that the Earth is round with this verse
He has created the Heavens and the Earth for Truth. He wraps the night up in the day, and wraps the day up in the night. (Qur'an, 39:5)
The author then elaborates how this is a MIRACLE by saying
"However, it should be remembered that the understanding of astronomy of the time perceived the world differently. It was then thought that the world was a flat plane and all scientific calculations and explanations were based on this belief."
So I checked with SCIENCE and found
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth
"By the time of Pliny the Elder (1st century) at the latest, however, the Earth's spherical shape was generally acknowledged among the learned in the western world. At that time Ptolemy derived his maps from a curved globe and developed the system of latitude and longitude (see clime)."
Miracle...or?
2006-10-22 11:49:08 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Nobody executed Galileo. LMAO!
2006-10-22 12:11:25 · update #1
the borg were talking to them
2006-10-22 11:52:16 · answer #1 · answered by proscunio 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I doubt desert living nomadic tribes of arabia had any idea of the fact that the world was round or straight or anything
all they thought about was their bread and their idols and what not ..
However this is a description by God of his creations. He has done that many times in the Quran so that humans perceive that things they take for granted were created for a reason and with great percision without faults.
2006-10-22 11:52:31 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
miracle? no. i have surfed many sites on islam. find the ones which can show and point out to u the discoveries written long before man discovered them.
the Koran isnt written by man that's why all the discoveries can be found in it. some are witten explicitly and some are not.
yet people still dont believe in it.
and they dont believe that arabs have astronomers and mathematicians and economists and politians and great leaders becos they dont research and base their argument on their opinions(baseless ones) but not facts.
2006-10-22 11:55:16 · answer #3 · answered by vida 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
expensive pal, you're an Islamic pupil very stable enable me share you one theory in case you bypass in the time of the previous Testement or the Quran you will discover that God has be defined as a Jealous God. yet yet he gave guy the skill and the perfect to compliment appropriate and incorrect. Why maximum of religions which all preache the comparable element in diverse languages and cults. in ordinary terms as a results of fact God needs you to love him and be his toddlers. So which ever faith you're able to be able to compliment you would be worshiping and venerating the single and in ordinary terms comparable God. Dont hassle approximately you birt faith or if it extra beneficial or worse. As all of them pontificate Peace like to fami;y and pals and besides as your enemy. Forgiveness is the heighst present God has given guy. as a results of fact in case you will detect it your heart to fogive all of us you may somewhat declare you like somebody. yet once you cant forgive somebody to the minutest factor then you definately can not say you like or you're at peace. So positioned at the back of each and every thing you will discover on your heart there's a clock which tick tocks stable undesirable (your Concience) and this is the 1st answere it somewhat is often the perfect one. once you're taking time to examine and reason to make a desicession it somewhat is going to be biased to a mans ideas words and deed wherin you will justify your deeds. yet only dealing with the 1st occasion of concience will shop you righteios.
2016-12-08 19:16:47 · answer #4 · answered by barsky 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They only seem to be able to "interpret" verses after scientists have already discovered what's actually happening.
2006-10-22 11:53:45 · answer #5 · answered by nondescript 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the koran it self sweetie is a miracle. because it is said by god (Allah), who create , and knows everything ..
you can find losts of things to dicover if you keep searching ..
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/091.qmt.html
2006-10-22 12:51:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like every single thing that islam claimed to be the first to discover, it was stolen from another, older culture
2006-10-22 11:53:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
yes yes jenny, it's quoted in it that you will ask this question these days! what a miracle!
2006-10-22 12:00:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just get over it
you are getting quite annoying with these questions
2006-10-22 11:52:39 · answer #9 · answered by a person 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
who excute galilio?
2006-10-22 12:03:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋