The Qur’an An Abiding Wonder
The Qur’an: The Book of God
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the movement of celestial bodies in a vast and
subtle space.
Dr Bucaille further writes:
It is shown that the sun moves in an orbit, but
no indication is given as to what this orbit
might be in relation to the Earth. At the time
of the Qur’anic Revelation, it was thought that
the Sun moved while the Earth stood still.
This was the system of geocentrism that had
held sway since the time of Ptolemy, in the
second century B.C., and was to continue to
do so until Copernicus in the sixteenth
century A.D. Although people supported this
concept at the time of Muhammad, it does not
appear anywhere in the Qur’an, either here or
elsewhere (p. 159).
THE DEVELOPMENT OF BIOLOGY
An interesting example of the Qur’an’s
foreknowledge of biology was highlighted in the
press towards the end of 1984. The Canadian
newspaper,
The Citizen,
(22 November, 1984)
published it under the heading:
