RE: Religions teach backward ideas - Yes & No
June 2, 2009 at 11:27 am
(This post was last modified: June 2, 2009 at 11:31 am by peace2u.)
Reply to Darwinian
"This I'm afraid is a myth. Scholars have been well aware that the Earth is spherical long, long before the Qur'an was even thought about.
Anaxagoras, a Greek philosopher was one of the first to state that the moon reflected the light of the Sun way back in about 500 B.C. So, no, I'm afraid that we can't credit the Qur'an with that one either.
Pythagorean philosopher, Philolaus 480 B.C. was the first to suggest that there is some central fire around which the Earth, sun, moon and all planets rotate."
So according to your argument these ideas where introduced way before the Quran. But they were not established scientific facts. I mean they were just proposed ideas but could not be proven at the time. Therefore, what is the probablity that man could have inserted this proposed ideas into the Quran knowing that they were not proven before but would to be proven in the future?
peace2u
"This I'm afraid is a myth. Scholars have been well aware that the Earth is spherical long, long before the Qur'an was even thought about.
Anaxagoras, a Greek philosopher was one of the first to state that the moon reflected the light of the Sun way back in about 500 B.C. So, no, I'm afraid that we can't credit the Qur'an with that one either.
Pythagorean philosopher, Philolaus 480 B.C. was the first to suggest that there is some central fire around which the Earth, sun, moon and all planets rotate."
So according to your argument these ideas where introduced way before the Quran. But they were not established scientific facts. I mean they were just proposed ideas but could not be proven at the time. Therefore, what is the probablity that man could have inserted this proposed ideas into the Quran knowing that they were not proven before but would to be proven in the future?
peace2u
