Scientific Errors in the Quran: Difference between revisions

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{{Quote|{{Quran|36|40}}|
{{Quote|{{Quran|36|40}}|
It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor doth the night outstrip the day. They float in an orbit.}}
It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor doth the night outstrip the day. They float each in an orbit. }}


Some apologists try to explain away the Qur'anic description of the sun moving in an orbit as a reference to our sun orbiting the black hole at the center of the milky way galaxy. This is an [[w:Ad hoc hypothesis|Ad hoc hypothesis]] and nothing from the text implies that the sun is orbiting anything other than the earth. If the author had knowledge of the sun orbiting a black hole then it is conspicuous that he never mentions it explicitly nor in any way differentiates the sun's orbit from that of the moon.
Some apologists try to explain away the Qur'anic description of the sun moving in an orbit as a reference to our sun orbiting the black hole at the center of the milky way galaxy. This is an [[w:Ad hoc hypothesis|Ad hoc hypothesis]] and nothing from the text implies that the sun is orbiting anything other than the earth. If the author had knowledge of the sun orbiting a black hole then it is conspicuous that he never mentions it explicitly nor in any way differentiates the sun's orbit from that of the moon.
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