On the Hydrological Cycle and Weather

Unlike the Quran which claims to be more superior than the Bible, the Bible claims scientific knowledge in science that no honest Muslim scholar can deny. On the hydrological cycle and weather for example the Bible details the complex weather system far and beyond the claims of modern Muslim scholars on the areas of evaporation, cloud formation and rain. 

In Job God declares: "For He looketh at the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven; to establish a weight over the wind, and apportion the waters by measure. When He made a law for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt" (Job 28:24-26). 

The Quran does not record such a find by Job, which confirms a modern scientific find in the last century that the air and the wind patterns are governed by their actual weight. Another discovery by modern science is found in Ecclesiastes as God declares: "All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; to the place from which the rivers come, there they return again" (Ecclesiastes 1:7). The most recent study by the United States Department of Agriculture proved that most of the water that makes the clouds worldwide comes from the evaporating water found in the oceans which covers 70% of the globe. 

On another verse God declares through Job: "Do you know how the clouds are balanced, those wondrous works of Him who is perfect in knowledge?" (Job 37:16). 

In another verse God describes the full water cycle which is not mentioned in the Quran as God declares: "For He draws up drops of water, which distill as rain from the mist, which the clouds drop down and pour abundantly on man. Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of clouds, the thunders from His canopy?" (Job 36:27-29). In another verse Job describes the springs of the sea: "Have you entered the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in search of the depths?" (Job 38:16). 

How did Job over 30 centuries ago have discovered what modern oceanic research knew 3 decades ago by underwater exploration of the very deep ocean? How did King Solomon know that the planetary winds followed a circular pattern from south to north and south again which determine the weather pattern throughout the globe, as God revealed through him: "The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north; the wind whirls about continually, and comes again on it's circuit" (Ecclesiastes 1:6).

 

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