Iraqi TV Debate: Is the Earth Flat?

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A debate between an Iraqi "Researcher on Astronomy" and a physicist on Iraqi television. Apparently, this is an important question in the Islamic world...

-From the transcript-

Interviewer: Lunar and solar eclipses, sunset and sunrise, and the changing of seasons -- how would you explain all these phenomena, if the Earth is not round, as you claim?

Fadhel Al-Sa'd: The sun circles the Earth because it is smaller than the Earth, as is evident in Koranic verses.

Have you ever seen how the sun moves? I have seen the sun moving. The sun makes one move every 24 hours.

What I say is based on Koranic science. He bases his arguments on the kind of science that I reject categorically -- the modern science that they teach in schools. This science is a heretic innovation that has no confirmation in the Koran. No verse in the Koran indicates that the Earth is round or that it rotates. Anything that has no indication in the Koran is false.

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Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: February 19, 2008 at 2:48 am
Author: mavaddat

Length: 00:04:46
Rating: 4.23
Views: 283237

Tags: islam science quran earth flat iraqi debate koran koranic

Video Comments:
madona (October 7, 2008 at 11:57 pm)
ignorance or faith?
02joseph02 (October 7, 2008 at 4:58 pm)
its very hypacretical of you to say seing as the bible says it is BTW I READ IT BUT I READ A DIFFERANT TRANSLTION
AbdielAbiram (October 7, 2008 at 4:38 pm)
I don't believe I was talking to you. I believe I said that to someone who thought the Koran actually described a round earth. If you were the one who said that, then you have not read the Koran.
02joseph02 (October 7, 2008 at 1:51 pm)
AGNOSTICISM? ITS NOT A RELIGION
ronsimple (October 7, 2008 at 12:53 am)
That was scary!How can you deal reasonably with people whose beliefs are stuck in the dark ages??
AbdielAbiram (October 7, 2008 at 12:28 am)
Surely you don't know your religion well!
AndreasFrancis (October 6, 2008 at 3:41 pm)
Haha, that was very funny, but also very concerning if that old guy represents a large part of Iraq's population.
YHChickita (October 6, 2008 at 7:08 am)
Did these morons not get the memo that we have spaceships and moon walks and clear picture, evidence that earth is ROUND!!!
Nekosesshy (October 3, 2008 at 9:48 am)
This guy...is an iddiot....
teach4right (October 2, 2008 at 6:44 pm)
who JESUS?=????
BTW,if you say mohaamd is greather than ME.i will get angry.bcoz i never kill man,never think to rape 6 years old baby,never copy or steal old n new testament from JEW N CHRISTIAN.