Something which I came across:
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YUSUFALI: So they stayed in their Cave three hundred years, and (some) add nine (more)
PICKTHAL: And (it is said) they tarried in their Cave three hundred years and add nine.
SHAKIR: And they remained in their cave three hundred years and (some) add (another) nine.
In the above ayat in surat Kahf, it says how many years the companions of the cave stayed inside the cave, but I never got what it meant when it said to add nine, and the translation at the bottom of my Quran said by the lunar calender, so they stayed 300 normal years and 309 years according to the Islamic calender. So I did some math: 300 years times 365 days= 109500 days. There are 354.37 days in the Islamic calender according to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_calendar, so 354.37 days times 309 years=109500. But there is only one problem: people then didnt know it takes 365 days for the earth to rotate around the sun, but the Quran got it right.
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Islam_Allah said:
"And two different things that orbit around the same thing are in two different orbits also, right?"
Maybe I can get the answer from a 1st grader?
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 25, 2008 6:52 pm Post subject: Re: Proof Quran is from God. Reply with quote
A_submitter wrote:
But there is only one problem: people then didnt know it takes 365 days for the earth to rotate around the sun, but the Quran got it right.
I'm not even going to talk about the half asses interpretation and the logical fallacies you just committed in your short post.But I would say this ;
You just proved that Julius Caesar was a prophet of god.
He introduced the Julian calendar in 46 BC, It has a regular year of 365 days divided into 12 months, and a leap day is added to February every four years. Hence the Julian year is on average 365.25 days long.
oh and you get one (muzzi points) for that