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[quote][quote] Brother AmrBassiouny You have ignored one point here, egg of ostrich is not spherical but elliptical as earth is, was it know at that time that earth was elliptical??[/quote] Well, Eratosthenes' (the librarian of Alexandria around 100BC) had accurately measured the circumfrence of Earth as close as 1-0.5% of the real figure, as well as the longitude of Earth. If it was as accurate as it was, then he should have easily reached that conclusion. I can quote a part of a document i have by the Islamic Research Center, and you can see how misleading it is. It is outright lying in order to convince people that the Quran is divine: "In early times, people believed that the earth is flat. For centuries, men were afraid to venture out too far, lest they should fall off the edge. Sir Francis Drake was the first person who proved that the earth is spherical when he sailed around it in 1597." This is, in plain words, a lie, and it sickens me to see Muslims going so far as lying about history in order to bring unknowledgable people into the religion. There are a few other things which people like Harun Yahya will go on and on about on how the Quran describes them and then goes on to talk about the ignorance of the people at the time and how they knew nothing about it. While in reality people knew about it more than 500 years before the Quran ever came. Anothe example would be how the Quran very vaguely hints that the moon reflects light off the sun (it doesn't even SAY it, it just hints)...and i've read so many scholars blab for pages about it, and how miraculous it was for a man living in a cave in the deserts of Saudi Arabia to have known this in the year 600. While the fact is that this was known by Pythagoras in 500BC. The scholars also never mention that the Porphet was at one point a trader and that he had frequently travelled to Syria and other places where there was a mixture of people coming from different parts of Europe, Asia and Africa, where knowledge of these things would be far from alien to him. Edited by: amrbassiouny on Friday, March 11, 2005 10:20 AM[/quote]
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