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| | Why does surah Fussilat say that the heavens and the earth were created in eight days whereas other surahs say six days?It does not say eight days. The total days given is six when you realize that the heavens and the earth were created simultaneously during the first two days. These two days are mentioned twice. If you count them twice then you get eight days, but who wants to double count and count for a fool? 2. It does not actually say that if you read it carefully. It actually says that Dhul Qarnayn found it setting in a muddy spring. This is a statement not about how the sun sets but about how Dhul Qarnayn experienced the sunset. The question: ´How did you find . . . .´ is not a question about how things are but about how things are in your opinion. In a similar way the word see is often used. Notice at the beginning of surah Hajj, for example that it says that at the onset of the Day of Judgement you will see people drunk although they will not be drunk but they will behave so due to the terror of the Judgement. Obviously ´see´ here is used not to denote fact but to denote one´s perception of the facts. So too with Dhul Qarnayn. The Qur´an was describing his experience, not the motion of the sun. Today we know that the Moon revolves around the earth in approximately 29.5 days. The sun also revolves in itsown orbit. To understand the sun´s orbit, Dr. Bucaille says that the position of the sun in our galaxy must beconsidered, and we must therefore call on modern scientific ideas (The Bible, the Qur´an and Science, p. 162).Our galaxy, the milky way galaxy, includes one hundred billion stars situated in such a formation that the galaxy isshaped like a disc. This disc turns around its centre like a gramaphone record. Now, it is obvious that when agramaphone record turns, any point on the disc would move around and come back to its original position. Similarly,every star in the galaxy moves as the galaxy rotates on its axis. Therefore the stars that are away from the centre ofthe galaxy orbit around the axis. The sun is one of those stars.Dr. Bucaille explains that modern science has worked out the details of the sun´s orbit as follows:´To complete one revolution on its own axis, the galaxy and the sun take roughly 250 million years. The sun travelsroughly 150 miles per second in the completion of this´ (The Bible, the Qur´an and Science, p. 162).After describing this, Dr. Bucaille comments:´The above is the orbital movement of the sun that was already referred to in the Qur´an fourteen centuries ago.´ (TheBible, the Qur´an and Science, p. 162)And yet this is a new finding. As Dr. Bucaille says, the knowledge of the sun´s orbit is an acquisition of modernastronomy (The Bible, the Qur´an and Science, p. 162).Two verses in the Qur´an refer to the orbits of the sun and moon. After mentioning the sun and the moon, God says:´Each one is travelling in an orbit with its own motion´ (Qur´an 21:33; 36:40). |
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