The Qur'an Has Scientific Errors

1. No, I am not mixing it up with the Earth. I am saying that the Sun has no fixed course, because it doesn't orbit the Earth, but that the Earth orbits the Sun. - The sun does indeed have its own course [1]. - Pro is making up a false interpretation of the verse (36:38), there is no mention of the word ‘Earth’ in the verse whatsoever: ”And the Sun runs its fixed course For a term (decreed).” 2. It is not a Scientific miracle because anyone in the 7th century knows that. This is like saying, "An Arab from the 7th century knew how to make babies... How did he know that?! It's a Scientific miracle!" - First, what does Pro mean by a scientific miracle? - Second, why is Pro talking about scientific miracles? <<< The Resolution is about ‘Scientific Errors’. - Third, very few people knew the Earth was round in the 7th Century especially not the Arabs, for only those who had access to Astronomy knew about that fact, which was inherited from the Greek & Roman Astronomers. - Fourth, what does Pro really mean by ‘making babies’?!!! <<< He couldn’t have meant ‘sexual intercourse leading to pregnancy & conception’, he could thus have only meant: ‘the process of progression of the embryo in the womb’, which was obviously not known until the 20th century [2]. 3. You didn't answer my questions about Al-Marwazi. I asked when it was first recorded in history that he made those calculations, or, in what time of history was it first discovered. - First, what point is Pro trying to make by asking such question?! <<< None that I can deduce. - Second, what does Pro mean by ‘when it was first recorded in history that he made those calculations’?!!! <<< It is self-evident that al-Marwazi was the first to record his own calculations since he made them (in his book ‘The Book of Bodies and Distances’ [3])!!! How could there have been another who recorded them before they were even made!!! - Third, what is the correlation between Pro’s question & his Resolution? <<< None, of course. - Fourth, the reason why I brought up the calculations of al-Marwazi is to show that the Early Muslims were aware that the Sun was a much bigger body than the Earth, so how could they’ve thought that the Sun sets some place on the Earth! The verse clearly doesn’t say so, & thus the Hadith that says: ‘the sun sets on a muddy spring’ is simply false. - Fifth, al-Marwazi was not the first nor the last muslim astronomer who calculated the Earth’s radius. Al-Biruni’s (b. 973 - d.1048) estimation: 6,339.9 km is very close to the the current value: 6,356.7 km (with a 0.2% margin of error = 16.8 km) [4]. 4. It means that Ibn Hazm had no Scientific miracle on his part, because it was already known the Earth was round. - First, why are we still talking about scientific miracles?! aren’t we trying to find inaccuracies in the Qur’an? - Second, that is exactly my point: muslim Scholars from the time of the Companions were aware of the fact that the Earth was round, & I brought proofs attesting to this reality from different muslim Scholars (Ibn Hazm & the others), & from the Qur’an itself. Therefore, it’s nonessential to think that the Qur’an insinuates that it isn’t, or that the Sun sets in some place on the Earth, For those that believed in it & understood it (the Qur’an) from the time of its revelation thought otherwise. 5. I was asking when Abu al-Husein Ibn al-Munadi's predictions were first recorded in history. I.e., in what time of history was it first discovered that he made those predictions. - What predictions?! <<< I have no idea what Pro is trying to say here. Abu al-Husein Ibn al-Munadi was a Hadith Scholar from Bagdad (b. 869 - d. 947) who wrote over 400 books, he was no astronomer [5]. He made no predictions nor discoveries, he just reported narrations from the Companions, the Successors, & the Scholars that came after as to their opinion on the Spherical Earth. Conclusion: => Throughout this debate Pro provided no valid arguments to support his resolution: ‘The Qur'an Has Scientific Errors’. The only alleged ‘Scientific Error’ Pro invoked is one that is based on a false interpretation, supported by a false account, & contradicted by the clear statement of the Qur’an itself, & the Consensus of -muslim- Scholars, in both the scientific realm & the religious realm, as I decisively & thoroughly demonstrated. Vote Con. Sources: [1] http://en.wikipedia.org... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org... [3] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com... [4] http://en.wikipedia.org... [5] http://library.islamweb.net...