RE: If someone says science can't explain everything what's the best way to repond?
August 23, 2016 at 5:52 am
(August 23, 2016 at 3:11 am)ReptilianPeon Wrote: With a Christian that may be good, but a Muhammadan would start taking about the Arab Golden Ages and how they supposedly invented the scientific method (even though it goes back to ancient Greece and the Arabs merely improved upon what the ancient Greeks have them). It's crazy to think Christianity has become more open to new ideas and the Muhamnadans are less open. It's like they've switched places.
Even if a Muslim started saying that Islam invented the scientific method, they haven't proven that it doesn't work. In fact, they've sort of backed themselves into a corner. If their religion is responsible for the scientific method, wouldn't that mean that Allah is to credit for it? Wouldn't that make it unassailable?
To counter, the principles of ancient Arabs that allowed for the free flow of ideas and thoughts which fed the Arab Golden Age have long since been abandoned in deference to Islamic fundamentalism. Science and mathematics flourished despite Islam, not because of it.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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