RE:ROTATION OF SUN AND MOON
by younus siddique on Apr 28, 2008 01:56 PM Permalink
Dr. Bucaille explains that modern science has worked out the details of the sun%u2019s orbit as follows:
%u201CTo complete one revolution on its own axis, the galaxy and the sun take roughly 250 million years. The sun travels roughly 150 miles per second in the completion of this%u201D (The Bible, the Quran and Science, p. 162).
RE:RE:ROTATION OF SUN AND MOON
by younus siddique on Apr 28, 2008 01:57 PM Permalink
After describing this, Dr. Bucaille comments:
%u201CThe above is the orbital movement of the sun that was already referred to in the Quran fourteen centuries ago.%u201D (The Bible, the Quran and Science, p. 162)
And yet this is a new finding. As Dr. Bucaille says, the knowledge of the sun%u2019s orbit is an acquisition of modern astronomy (The Bible, the Quran and Science, p. 162).
Two verses in the Quran refer to the orbits of the sun and moon. After mentioning the sun and the moon, Allah says:
%u201CEach one is traveling in an orbit with its own motion%u201D (Quran, 21:33; 36:40).
Even after the Quran was revealed, early commentators could not conceive of the orbits of the sun and moon. The tenth century commentator Tabari could not explain this so he said, %u201CIt is our duty to keep silent when we do not know%u201D (XVII, 15 quoted in The Bible, the Quran and Science, p. 161).
