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Originally Posted by spot
It's strange that people think the idea of a spherical earth is recent. Aristotle demonstrated it to be a sphere around 2340 years ago and Eratosthenes calculated the sphere's dimensions to within reasonable error limits ninety years afterwards. It's more a matter of observation than divine inspiration and it's definitely pre-Islamic.
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Thats great ,I wonder why the writters of the Bible didnt see that, secondly , Aristole and the Others assumed that the Earth is the Center of the universe for along time,
You can readMore about the Other Islamic miracles , that never been discovered but this Century and the pervious One.
http://55a.net/firas/english/