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It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor doth the night outstrip the day. They float in an orbit.}} | It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor doth the night outstrip the day. They float each in an orbit. }} | ||
Some apologists try to explain away the Qur'anic description of the sun moving in an orbit as a reference to our sun orbiting the black hole at the center of the milky way galaxy. This is an [[w:Ad hoc hypothesis|Ad hoc hypothesis]] and nothing from the text implies that the sun is orbiting anything other than the earth. If the author had knowledge of the sun orbiting a black hole then it is conspicuous that he never mentions it explicitly nor in any way differentiates the sun's orbit from that of the moon. | Some apologists try to explain away the Qur'anic description of the sun moving in an orbit as a reference to our sun orbiting the black hole at the center of the milky way galaxy. This is an [[w:Ad hoc hypothesis|Ad hoc hypothesis]] and nothing from the text implies that the sun is orbiting anything other than the earth. If the author had knowledge of the sun orbiting a black hole then it is conspicuous that he never mentions it explicitly nor in any way differentiates the sun's orbit from that of the moon. | ||