re islam and scientific predictions was re genocide is caused by atheism in bb c i dbstu rz tu bs de i dbstu rz tu bs de benedikt rosenau writes in article apr monu cc monash edu au darice yoyo cc monash edu au fred rice writes and it is he god almighty who created the night and the day and the sun and the earth all the celetial bodies swim along each in its rounded course holy quran hmm this agrees with the ptolemic system of the earth at the centre with the planets orbitting round it so copernicus and gallileo were wrong after all you haven t read very carefully if you look again you will see that it doesn t say anything about what is circling what anyway they are not moving in circles oops sorry my words not the words of the qur an nor is there any evidence that everything goes around in a rounded course in a general sense wishy washy statements are not scientific note that the celestial bodies in the above verse is an interpolation which is why it is in brackets it is the translator s incorrect imho interpretation here is maurice bucaille s translation he studied arabic for his research into the qur an and science of this verse god is the one who created the night the day the sun and the moon each is travelling in an orbit with its own motion qur an the positive aspect of this verse noted by dr maurice bucaille is that while geocentrism was the commonly accepted notion at the time and for a long time afterwards there is no notion of geocentrism in this verse or anywhere in the qur an fred rice darice yoyo cc monash edu au
