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28 August 2023
→Noah's ark holding every species: Have updated the previous 'few hundred thousand' species to the more accurate few 'million' and listed the number of land animals appearing that make Noahs ark story 'difficult' to believe has happened. Sources are now provided for these claims too which weren't previously.
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→Implied similar size and distance of the sun and moon: I have changed a previous 'moon would need to travel 98 million miles' mention to 'tens of millions' as the figure they provided does not have a source, and the figure seemed to contradict NASA (and other sources) that the sun and both Earth and moon are 93 million miles away (so would lie c.41m miles apart). And added sections explaining what would happen should the sun move toward the Earth (on judgement day).
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→Geocentricism: Added some more context on geocentricism and the sun's final resting place stating this happens after it's joined to the moon with a link to the quran verse
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→Geocentricism: Previously a line simply stated some exegetes had a different interpretation of the sun's resting place verse - however I had added some context of the later tasfirs working with the now accepted astronomers geocentric view of planets orbiting the Earth. References are given where appropriate :)
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→The sky/heaven as a guarded ceiling: I have added another more recent example of the skies 'non-protection' in 2013 Russia of meteors going through the atmosphere that is known to have injured humans. The first link is National Geographic confirming the size of the earths atmosphere for context, showing the meteor penetrated it. The second link is to the NASA article about the meteor/event listing the damage caused, which you can see is largely copied from the final paragraph of that page.
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27 August 2023
→Earth as spread out and flat: I have updated my previous source explaining Plotemy's Almagest stated the Earth is spherical from Wikipedia to a more 'professional' one, 'britannica', which also mentions the translations into Arabic. Secondly I have added dates (and referenced) to when al-Jalalyan's tasfir was written, showing even significantly after the spherical Earth was known, the matter was far from settled (due to their analysis of the wording of the quran).
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→Earth as spread out and flat: I have added a section showing when the spherical model of the Earth was known by the caliphate. The first link is just to wikipedia to show what Plotemy's Almagest is, (a scholarly link is not needed due to just providing a quick summary of what it is here). The second link is to download an article from scholar of Islamic astronomy (David A King), stating when the translations from Greek took place and so would have been known far before al-Jalalayans tasfir.
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