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Type on Google " does the sun move". You will get this answer

Yes, the Sun - in fact, our whole solar system - orbits around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. We are moving at an average velocity of 828,000 km/hr. But even at that high rate, it still takes us about 230 million years to make one complete orbit around the Milky Way! The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy. In 1512 the astronomer Nicholas Copernicus put forward his theory that the Sun is motionless at the centre of the solar system, and that the planets revolve around it. The belief that the Sun is stationary was widespread amongst astronomers until the 20th century. It is now a well-established scientific fact that the Sun is not stationary, but is moving in an orbit around the centre of our Milky Way galaxy [11].

The Quran mentions the orbit of the Sun:

It is He who created night and day, the Sun and the Moon, each floating in its orbit. [21:33]

Tigger · Answer

All motion is relative and based upon points of reference. This is the major flaw in those who use ancient "holy' texts (The Bible Included) with respect to astronomical claims.  These texts were not written by cosmologists for cosmologists they were generally written by people on the Earth to other people on the Earth making the surface of the Earth the point of reference. Considering the point of reference being applied the statements are completely accurate. Attempting to impose another point of reference to the statements constitutes a framing error and only acts to make the person doing so sound silly!

Anonymous · Answer

By orbit, Mohamed meant that the sun and moon orbit the EARTH. This is in line with the Old Testament's geocentrism. They didn't know about the Milky Way Galaxy.

aladdinwa · Answer

It obviously means the Sun and the Moon, each floating in its own orbit... around Earth!  Otherwise, why is Earth not also mentioned as floating in its own orbit?  The Quran is, obviously, a product of its time - in which man believed Earth to be at the center of the universe.
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Herfot · Answer

That passage is referring to the geocentric model of the solar system.  Proposed by Plato and Aristotle.  That the Earth was the center of the universe with the Sun and Moon orbiting around the Earth.

Just Kevin · Answer

Here's an accurate description.

Brigalow Bloke · Answer

That's all right dear.  We expect theists of all kinds to lie about science.  Lying is all they have, poor things.

Kjelstad · Answer

it also insinuates the earth stands still.  Stop finding new ways to be wrong.  We know our galaxy is moving, it is on a collision course with another galaxy as well.

? · Answer

Greeks knew it 800 years earlier...

Anonymous · Answer

Okay. Aaaaand?

Mutations Killed Darwin Fish · Answer

Google wouldn't know that.

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