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===The Cause of Shadows=== | ===The Cause of Shadows=== | ||
Shadows are produced when the sun's light is blocked by an obstacle. It is the Earth's rotation that causes these shadows to change size and | Shadows are produced when the sun's light is blocked by an obstacle. It is the Earth's rotation that causes these shadows to change size and lengthen. However, verse 25:45 seems to say that the reason that shadows lengthen rather than being stationary is because the sun guides them. Aside from other light sources, shadows on Earth require the sun to exist, but for them to lengthen requires the sun to guide them according to this verse. Yet if the Earth did not rotate (so shadows were stationary) and then the Earth was made to rotate (so that they could lengthen and draw in) the sun would not need to be made to do anything different in either case. Thus the most likely explanation is that the verse represents a geocentric worldview where the sun moves across the sky, guiding the shadows. | ||
{{Quote|{{Quran|25|45-46}}| | {{Quote|{{Quran|25|45-46}}| | ||
Hast thou not turned thy vision to thy Lord?- How He doth prolong the shadow! If He willed, He could make it stationary! then do We make the sun its guide; Then We draw it in towards Ourselves,- a contraction by easy stages.}} | Hast thou not turned thy vision to thy Lord?- How He doth prolong the shadow! If He willed, He could make it stationary! then do We make the sun its guide; Then We draw it in towards Ourselves,- a contraction by easy stages.}} | ||
Then the next verse, 25:46, says that shadows are drawn towards Allah which has no scientific meaning. | |||
===The similar size and distance of the sun and moon=== | ===The similar size and distance of the sun and moon=== | ||