God Arises
The Challenge of The Qur’an
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nails set in the vault of heaven, or thought of as tiny
lamps which were swung to and fro at night by
means of a rope. The ancient Indians held that the
earth rested upon the horns of a cow and when the
cow shifted the earth from one horn to the other,
this caused earthquakes. Up till the time of
Copernicus (1473-1543 A.D) it was generally
believed that the earth was stationary and that the
sun revolved around it (Two thousand years earlier,
Aristarchus of Samos had anticipated this theory,
but his ideas did not gain ground.)
With the advances made in the field of science and
technology, the range of human observation and
experiment were vastly increased, opening up great
vistas of knowledge about the universe. In all
spheres of existence and in all disciplines of science,
previously established concepts were proved wrong
by later research and were discarded. This means
that no human work dating back 1500 years can
boast of total accuracy, because all ‘facts’ must now
be re-evaluated in the light of recent information.
No such book has, in fact, been found to be totally
free of errors, with the notable exception of the
Quran, whose authenticity has withstood all
