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From Aristotle Book 2 Part 8  _ the follow ing text is clearly des cribing eva poration and condensati on as rain – something which does not appear in the Quran but is claimed by the “Miracle of the water cycle in Quran”. “A difficulty presents itself: why should not nature work, not for the sake of something, nor because it is better so, but just as the sky rains, not in order to make the corn grow, but of necessity? What is drawn up must cool, and what has been cooled must become water and descend, the result of this being that the corn grows.” That was written by Aristotle hundreds of years before the Quran, so the claims that “no one” knew about evaporation and condensation is completely false. Full text can be found at website below is below - Provided by The Internet Classics Archive. See bottom for copyright. Available online at http://classics.mit.edu//Aristotle/physics.html Physics By Aristotle Translated by R. P. Hardie and R. K. Gaye

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From Aristotle Book 2 Part 8

 _ the following text is clearly describing evaporation and condensation as

rain – something which does not appear in the Quran but is claimed by the

“Miracle of the water cycle in Quran”.

“A difficulty presents itself: why should not nature work, not for

the sake of something, nor because it is better so, but just as the

sky rains, not in order to make the corn grow, but of necessity?

What is drawn up must cool, and what has been cooled must become waterand descend, the result of this being that the corn grows.”

That was written by Aristotle hundreds of years before the Quran, so the

claims that “no one” knew about evaporation and condensation is completely

false.

Full text can be found at website below is below -

Provided by The Internet Classics Archive.

See bottom for copyright. Available online at

http://classics.mit.edu//Aristotle/physics.html

Physics

By Aristotle

Translated by R. P. Hardie and R. K. Gaye