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Ten past Mecca
Topic Started: Apr 22 2008, 06:00 PM (250 Views)
smithodude
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I figured as there was so much scientific chat around here, the board readers might want to investigate this article for some *real* science (apparently it was written in the Koran from the start)..

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The underlying belief is that scientific truths were also revealed in the Muslim holy book, and it is the work of scholars to unearth and publicise the textual evidence.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7359258.stm

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Horace
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Apr 22 2008, 06:00 PM
I figured as there was so much scientific chat around here, the board readers might want to investigate this article for some *real* science (apparently it was written in the Koran from the start)..

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The underlying belief is that scientific truths were also revealed in the Muslim holy book, and it is the work of scholars to unearth and publicise the textual evidence.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7359258.stm

In the koran, muhammad often talks to his followers, which means that his words reached his followers at the speed of sound, or mach1, something a barrier western technology didn't break until Chuck Yeager's famous flight several thousand years later.

Muhammed also carries stuff around in the Koran, but the act of carrying someting implies a force against which one is pulling, namely in this case, gravity. Without gravity, Muhammed would not have had to carry anything, he would only have had to push things along in mid air. Gravity was not even formalized until Newton, several thousand years later, and then only incompletely, due to an apple. Muhammed carried many things other than apples.

Within the first several pages of the English translation of the Koran, the leters E, M, C, and the number 2 appear, anticipating by eons Einsteins famous equation of matter and energy, without which atomic weapons, the greatest destructive force devised by man, could not exist. That destructive force is but a drop compared to teh ocean of power contained within the Koran's pages however.
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Well, so much for a lack of science in Islam. Thanks, Horace.
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Horace - you sound suspiciously like a dangerously well-informed Islamic scholar
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Axtremus
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If you like the Mecca time article and what Horace wrote, you might also like...

Embryology in the Qur'an

And many like it in Qur'an, Islam, and Science.

:D
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its funny, back in the old days, say the years 700-1400, when europe was more barbarian then neanderthal times, science was flourishing under islam.

all the great science texts where in arabic and then translated for latin (or hebrew) scholars.

and now things are reversed. not even, because there is very little translation into arabic.

life is ironic.

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smithodude
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Axtremus
Apr 22 2008, 06:28 PM
If you like the Mecca time article and what Horace wrote, you might also like...

Embryology in the Qur'an

And many like it in Qur'an, Islam, and Science.

:D

:wacko:

I admit I didn't read the whole of the embryo link but I think I read enough. So ridiculously tenuous. Do they seriously think people won't see through it?

There's a lifetime of reading there!!


From A New Astronomical Quranic Method for The Determination Of The Greatest Speed C
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It will come as no exaggeration if one says the story of the "New Astronomical Quranic Method for The Determination Of The Greatest Speed" is a typical overassessment of the importance of the discovery of a minor coincidence in the sea of possible relations between physically meaningful numbers and semantic interpretations of ancient texts.
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Renauda
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bachophile
Apr 22 2008, 09:15 PM
its funny, back in the old days, say the years 700-1400, when europe was more barbarian then neanderthal times, science was flourishing under islam.

all the great science texts where in arabic and then translated for latin (or hebrew) scholars.

and now things are reversed. not even, because there is very little translation into arabic.

life is ironic.

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