Cleric in Saudi Arabia denies Earth’s rotation, revolution around the Sun
Mumbai: A cleric in Saudi Arabia has disproved that the Earth rotates and revolves around the Sun. The cleric was teaching students that the Earth is stationary.
The cleric had instead said that the opposite is true.
Sheikh Bandar al-Khaibari while answering a question from a student had made use of ‘logic’ and cited an example to prove his point. He answered the student saying the Earth is ‘stationary and doesn’t move’.
Khaibari cited religious statements and quoted clerics to support his argument.
Social media has reacted strongly to Khaibari’s statements.
His use of a logical method to explain his point has drawn guffaws from various quarters.
In a video available with Al Arabiya news, Khaibari used a visual and said, ‘First of all, where are we now? we go to Sharjah airport to travel to China by plane, clear?! Focus with me, this is Earth;” he said, holding a sealed water cup.
He argued that if a plane stops still in air “China would be coming towards it” in case the Earth rotates on one direction. It the Earth rotates on opposite direction, the plane would never reach China, because “China is also rotating.”
Watch the video here:
Incidentally the video surfaced on the day Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was born
A user tweeted: "What a coincidence that this would occur on Galileo's birthday!"
#?????_????_?????_????? What a coincidence that this would occur on Galileo's birthday!
— Häyät Al-Ma'arri? (@TheBoominati) February 15, 2015And yet it moves! Galileo, father of modern science, was born on 02-15-1564. Absolute genius pic.twitter.com/AAHpzWsroi
— Fabio Demi (@fdemi59) February 15, 2015
