The completely wrong astronomy is a fact that Muslims NEVER mention. No omniscient god is bound to wrong science. But Mohammed was. No god made these mistakes. Even a devil would not make so many mistakes.
Quran on Earth, Moon, Sun
22:65 says, “Allah prevents the heaven from falling on the earth.” How can the universe fall on the earth? The earth is a dot in a finite space.
2:22 says, “Allah has made the earth like a bed and the sky like a bow.” The earth is not a flat bed but round, and the sky is not a blue bow above the earth.
19:90 says, “The sky can crack.” The sky is not a dome “above” the earth.
57:21 says, “The heaven [the universe] and the earth are of equal width.” Nonsense. Watch the video below.
18:86 “The sun sets in a puddle.” The sun neither rises nor sets anywhere. Watch the video below.
18:90 “Where the sun rises, there lives a people.” No human can survive a 6,000 degree sun…and the distance from sun to earth is 150 million km. Who wrote the Quran?
91:2 “The moon follows the sun.” From Earth, it’s an optical illusion. But they didn’t know any better.
81:1 says “…When the sun is rolled up.” Back then, people thought the sun and moon were flat disks.
55:7 says “We have established the heavens…” Wrong! Nothing has been established. It’s a vain fantasy. Earth is a speck in infinite space.
75:9 says “The sun and the moon are connected.” That’s what it seems like during a solar eclipse, but in reality, they are 384,000 km apart.
37:6-10 says, “Stars [lamps] are missiles against the devil.” Stars look like small lights in the sky, but in reality a star is bigger than the earth, while a satan is so small that he can fit in your nose, according to a hadith.
67:5 says, “And indeed We have adorned the lowest heaven with lamps.” The closest star is actually our own sun at 93,000,000 miles (150,000,000 km) away. The next closest star is Proxima Centauri. It is about 25,300,000,000,000 miles (about 39,900,000,000,000 kilometers) away. A star is a very large, glowing ball of gas. This heat gives the star light and heat.
6:35 says: Allah says: ‘Muhammad, if you can, find a ladder to the sky as a sign.’ A 25 billion mile staircase? That’s like 40 billion years of climbing stairs. At that time, they didn’t know anything about the distances between the earth/moon/sun, the size of stars, the rotation of the earth, and trillions of planets.
67:5 says: ‘The devil is pelted with stars [lamps].’ A devil is small, he fits in your nose, while a star is many times bigger than the earth. One star can destroy the earth.
65:12 says: ‘Allah has created seven heavens and seven earths.’ It’s an old myth.
71:16 says: ‘The moon is placed as a light.’ Not true. The moon doesn’t give light, but is illuminated by the sun. Who wrote the Quran?
81:11 says: ‘The sky can be taken away.’ There are not seven heavens on top of each other.
36:38 says: ‘Allah moves the sun to its destination’. The sun has no destination. See video above.
21:32 says: ‘The sky is a protective vault [for the flat earth].’ Meteorites and asteroids can hit earth, planets can also hit earth? So no protective vault.
16:79 says: ‘Allah controls the birds under the [blue] arc of the sky.’ Birds are where they can find food.
13:2 says: ‘We have established the sky without visible pillars’. A myth, that’s what the Bible thought about it. See video, no poles, no blue dome above the earth.
43:9 says: ‘A piece of sky can fall on you’. The cosmos does not function as a roof for the earth, see video.
34:9 says: ‘Allah can make the heavens fall down on the earth by His command.’ Nonsense, the cosmos is not an arch or a roof, it is an infinite space. Who wrote the Quran?
21:104 says: ‘We can roll up the sky [canopy]’. There are no 7 heavens, no canopy, the universe is an infinite space with planets, stars and moons.
81:2 says: ‘The stars can fall.’ Stars exist in all directions, not just ‘above’ you. They do not ‘fall’ and are not affected by gravity, some are 500x larger than the earth.
20:53 says: ‘He has made the earth like a huge carpet’. The Quran gives no indication that the earth is round.
41:11 In this verse the Quran says, the sky was smoke and God said to it and the earth to “come together,” which they did willingly.
Of course, God talking to inanimate objects such as heavens and earth and telling them “come together willingly or unwillingly” and they responding, “we will come willingly,” is good for children’s stories. Heaven and earth are made of gasses and rocks. They don’t have a will and don’t respond.
Furthermore, the earth was never separated from sky/heaven. So they could not have come together.
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A glimp of Muhammad’s knowledge about the sunset. The following sounds like a different version of Abu Dawud’s narration, which was given earlier:
Sahih al-Bukhari 3199 (Book 59, Hadith 10):
Narrated Abu Dharr:
The Prophet asked me at sunset, “Do you know where the Sun goes (at the time of sunset)?” I replied, “Allah and His Apostle know better.” He said, “It goes (i.e. travels) till it prostrates Itself underneath the Throne and takes the permission to rise again, and it is permitted and then (a time will come when) it will be about to prostrate itself but its prostration will not be accepted, and it will ask permission to go on its course but it will not be permitted, but it will be ordered to return whence it has come and so it will rise in the west. And that is the interpretation of the Statement of Allah: ‘And the Sun runs its fixed course for a term (decreed).’” (read 36.38)
Such was the miserable state of Muhammad’s knowledge. He thought that the Sun is an animate and cognitive being, so that it can prostrate itself, ask permission, and so on; and that Allah would give “orders” to that anthropomorphic Sun! If you are a carpenter, do you ever give orders to the chairs that you make? If you are a construction worker, do you give orders to your bricks? Why, if you were the creator of the Sun, would you give orders to it? Such thoughts can be entertained today only by little children, and even children stop thinking such nonsense after they learn what the Sun is, in the first years of elementary school. In addition, as you know very well, the Sun does not “go” anywhere at the time of sunset. It is the Earth that turns; the Sun merely travels within our Galaxy, and we follow its course, twirling around it once per year. But Muhammad didn’t have the slightest clue about all that, and thought instead that the Sun needs to go somewhere (and even ask permission from Allah)! If Muhammad was divinely inspired by Allah, why did he speak such factually wrong things, such plain nonsense, as we learn from Abu Dharr through Sahih al-Bukhari?
This hadith shows us what Muhammad really believed. But he didn’t even invent by himself what he believed. He wasn’t smart enough to come up with original ideas. Muhammad simply made a salad in his mind out of ideas that already existed in ancient cultures of that region of the world. For example, most ancient cultures believed that the Sun and Moon were gods who cruised along the dome of the sky. The ancient Egyptians believed that the sun-god Ra was born every morning, growing in strength until noon, and cruising the sky on a boat. At noon he would switch to another boat that carried him to the entrance to the nether world, where further boats carried him through the night. Does that bring to mind Muhammad’s wondering: “Do you know where the Sun goes (at the time of sunset)?”? Of course it does, because Muhammad’s knowledge about what happens to the Sun at night rested on mythological beliefs of ancient and pagan peoples, such as the Egyptians and Greeks. (In Greek mythology, too, the Sun was personified as a god, the god Helios, who, during the night hours crossed the sea — “Oceanus”, encircling the earth — in a boat from West to East.) So it is not surprising at all that Muhammad personified objects such as the Sun and the Moon, when his beliefs are compared against the background of legends and mythologies of peoples that surrounded him and his culture. This observation, however, should make every pious Muslim wonder: how could Muhammad ever be considered “divinely inspired” if he believed in such falsehoods?
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36:40 says “The sun must not overtake the moon.” Wrong! From the earth it seems that way but in reality the moon moves in an orbit around the sun. See video.
36:37-40 says, “The sun floats in an orbit.” In reality, the earth rotates on its axis and the sun stands still. See video.