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5 October 2016
→Primary Evidence: Added very significant hemisphere falak point & removed paragraph covered in the cosmology page - better to get right into the interesting stuff.
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→Introduction
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→Introduction: very significant point about falak and spindle whirls, explained in Lane's Lexicon
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→Introduction
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→Introduction
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→Primary Evidence: Removed one of the points which has nothing to do with geocentrism, and is better covered in the cosmology page
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→The sun and moon are signs from Allah: Removed this section. Doesn't really add anything useful, and similar verse occurs in the next section.
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17 September 2016
→The shape of the sun's course
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→The shape of the sun's course
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→The shape of the sun's course
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15 September 2016
→The visibility of the sun's movement: More rigorous argument regarding the shadows verse
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→Counter-arguments
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12 September 2016
→Counter-arguments: pointer to earlier section re 36:40
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→The course of the sun in relation to the course of the moon
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→The visibility of the sun's movement: Lexicon links regarding 36:40
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→Counter-arguments: More rigorous explanations
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11 September 2016
→Counter-arguments
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→Muslims around the time of Muhammad: removed unnecessary other versions of same hadith and added the one where Muhammad tells the sun to stop
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→Counter-arguments: addressing the 39:5 wrapping = earth rotation claim
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New section: Counter-arguments, with 91:3-4 comprehensively refuted.
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→The visibility of the sun's movement
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→The visibility of the sun's movement: Further explanation regarding 31.29 and better wording
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→Conclusion
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→Primary Evidence: Added to the primary evidence list the 2 main things from the improved shape of the sun's orbit section.
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→The shape of the sun's course: lexicon link for 2:258
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Moved shape of sun's course section further up now that it's been improved
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→The shape of the sun's course
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→The shape of the sun's course: Shortened this section, replacing some full quotes with verse citations + extra detail on 2:258
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→Primary Evidence
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→Primary Evidence: clearer wording
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→The visibility of the sun's movement
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→Primary Evidence
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18 August 2016
Consolidated the two galactic orbit refutations into the same section, and removed duplicate quote of 25:45
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Moved nearer to the beginning the section on 75:8-9 as it is so significant and goes well with the next section
→Primary Evidence: correction regarding stars, and removed the verse citations that do not demonstrate a fixed heavens (see also scientific errors page talk re 35:41), which are not needed for this topic anyway
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4 March 2016
→The visibility of the sun's movement: Changed to Sahih Intl translation, which as is so often the case, is most accurate. The sentence parsing is important to leave no doubt.
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→The course of the sun in relation to the course of the moon: Note that 36:37 gives more proof that the sun's movement is supposed to be visible
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→Primary Evidence: I always tend to feel that "orbit" lends an undeserved air of scientific credibility to the Qur'an, so just a little note on that as falak can mean semi circle
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→Primary Evidence: Maybe contentious, but the hadiths and scientist only appear right at the end in a minor role so I've removed the preamble, which is partly duplicated there anyway. Better to shorten, get right into it before the reader gets bored.
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→The movement of the sun and timekeeping: Made explicit the connection with previous section. Shortened article by removing the full prayer time quotes as adds little, instead added their verse numbers to salat list.
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→The visibility of the sun's movement
m→The visibility of the sun's movement: merged the 13.2 stuff into here as per above, reducing duplication and the length of the article.
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→The sun and moon are signs from Allah: Removed the part about 13:2, because it is already in the next section too where it is even more relevant. I'll partly merge those comments into there.
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→The regular cycle of the sun: directing reader to notes above about the word 'resting place'
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→Conclusion: added a couple of the main points to conclusion
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→Primary Evidence: removed endnote re the word follows as per previous edit note as it now appears later
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→The course of the sun in relation to the course of the moon
m→The course of the sun in relation to the course of the moon: The Arabic point re the word follows is a major evidence, so moved to here. I'll remove from endnotes where it had earlier been put in an effort to shorten the primary evidence list.
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→The regular cycle of the sun: 'prevents' is not an accurate word given the Arabic. 'Not for' or 'not fitting' is more accurate.
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→The visibility of the sun's movement: Added the milky way point which this section is crucial in debunking. Also removed an unnoticed apologetic addition.
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