RE: Hubble's Law in the Quran long before Hubble's own discovery
January 5, 2018 at 9:15 am
(This post was last modified: January 5, 2018 at 9:16 am by WinterHold.)
(January 5, 2018 at 8:36 am)Cyberman Wrote: Here's a thought.
Instead of scouring your magic book to find bits that can be sort of twisted to retrofit things we already know, how about trying to find what it says about the next big discovery? Something we haven't discovered for ourselves through actual science yet? Wouldn't that be a better use for the thing?
You never know, you might come up with a cure for cancer, or spacewarp physics or something. Pointing at mythology, squinting a bit and saying "ha ha, we found it first but nobody noticed until we knew what to look for" doesn't help very much.
100 years ago, this was "new things" that nobody ever knew.
The scientific community said that space is static up until 1922, and that's the earliest record for such a fact being derived from the equations of general relativity.
1400 years ago, the Quran said that. And instead of having faith, many advocated stories of flying horses mentioned in the Hadith. Look where these people are now.
The Quran is not a manufacturing guide, or a book of cosmology and science. It's a message.
Then again; it spoke about an afterlife where creation will get repeated. Many laughed at the thought through time, until science found out that it's a real actual possibility.
I think it already said a lot. And already people lost the chance to concentrate on what it says a lot.
