Islam teaches that the earth is flat | |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 66370984 United States 01/01/2015 06:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Quran mentions that the world was "laid out" or "made flat" Quoting: Anonymous Coward 66572820 Commentaries in the Qran say: "... the earth, even though it is round, is an enormous sphere, and each little part of this enormous sphere, when it is looked at, appears to be flat." so ur thread is bullshit all around, plus saying laid out is nowhere close to the same as made flat. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 65989672 United States 01/01/2015 06:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's funny that we've used the same calender 2000 years, used the stars to guide our understanding of the passage of 'time' yet we believed the earth was flat, even though the sun and moon and all the stars were round shaped. It's amazing that through the 70,000 years or so that humans have spread through the planet since the last big volcanic event that nearly had us go extinct, that there's at most 4000 years of recorded history, and that we hardly even know much about the last 250 years much less the last 5000+ |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 66370984 United States 01/01/2015 06:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I was researching the origins of the modern calender which date back to julious caesar, basically the father of the calender we all use today. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 65989672 It's funny that we've used the same calender 2000 years, used the stars to guide our understanding of the passage of 'time' yet we believed the earth was flat, even though the sun and moon and all the stars were round shaped. It's amazing that through the 70,000 years or so that humans have spread through the planet since the last big volcanic event that nearly had us go extinct, that there's at most 4000 years of recorded history, and that we hardly even know much about the last 250 years much less the last 5000+ The concept of a spherical Earth dates back to ancient Greek philosophy from around the 6th century BC, but remained a matter of philosophical speculation until the 3rd century BC, when Hellenistic astronomy established the spherical shape of the earth as a physical given. |
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