Quran and the Places for the Moon - 3

Quran and Science

Quran and Science

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As it has been scientifically proven, the light of the moon is not from itself, but from the sun. For this reason (like any other sphere) about half of it is always bright and about the other half that does not face the sun is dark. At the place where an observer looks at the moon from the earth, he sees a certain amount of this light during thirty days. This transformation continues until it returns to its original state. If we assume the moon in its crescent shape, day by day, more of its surface that is facing the sun is facing the earth until it reaches the point where almost all of the side of the moon that is facing the sun is also facing the earth (Moon on the fourteenth night). From that night onwards, it began to decrease again until it reached its first state, which was the crescent moon. Because of this difference that is found in the face of the moon,  the effects appear in the sea and land and in the lives of humans as well. It have been explained in the related sciences as well.

The expression of these points in the above verses at a time when Ptolemy's astronomical rules were ruling all over the world, adds to the scientific greatness of the Qur'an. The theory that believed that the sun and the moon do not move by themselves, but are placed in a stationary and motionless point. Each of them is placed in a circular and crystalline constellation. Those constellations are moving. This theory ruled the world for fifteen hundred years until it was invalidated by Galileo and Kepler about three or four hundred years ago. While the Holy Qur'an declared the invalidity of this theory fourteen hundred years ago. [1]